28 Noteworthy Articles in Preceding Volumes of World Almanac.

NOTEWORTHY ARTICLES OR PARAGRAPHS IN PRECEDING VOLUMES OF "THE

ARTICLES.

WORLD ALMANAC."

Volume. Page. .1908..336

Medal of Honor, U. S. Military, List of
Persons Awarded...

ARTICLES.

Mayflower Passengers..

1899... 84

Alien Landholders in the United States..1888... 90

Medical and Surgical Progress in the

America, Four Centuries of.....

American Growth in a Century

..1901...106
.1910..165

Nineteenth Century.

.1901...298

Meteorites......

1903.. 59

Apportionment Act, New..

.1912..157

Militia, Act of 1908.

1909.. 93

Arbitration Treaties....

..1912..124

Millionaires, The American..

1902...135

Arizona Statehood..

.1912..157

Army, U. S., General Officers Who Have

Modernism, Pope's Encyclical on.......1909.339
Mormons, The.

.1897...329

Risen from the Ranks......

1900..409

Mottoes and Popular Names of States...1910..162

Army, U. S., Regimental Records..

1904...351

National Political Platforms...

.1910...203

Australian Ballot System

..1892... 90

Naval Guns, Range of....

.1892...252

Australian Federation.

.1904...355

Bartholdi Statue Described..

Battle Calendar of the Republic.
Bell Time on Shipboard...

Bible Statistics......

..1901...382 Navy, U. S., Historic Vessels of.....

..1899... 85
..1902... 27
..1894...219

Boodle Aldermen of New York, List of..1888...118
British Throne, Order of Succession to 1909..398
Canada, Boundary Line Controversy......1902...184
Canadian Reciprocity.

1912..164

Census, Decennial U.S., How Taken....1910.116
Centuries Ago.....

Chicago, World's Fair...

China Boxer Rising.

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1892..

Chinese Treaty with the U, S..
Civil War of 1861-65.

.1896... 44

New Mexico Statehood...
New Testament Chronology.
New York City, Reconstruction of..
New York Public Service Act.......
Nicaragua Canal Treaty.
Novels, Hundred Greatest...
Occupations in the U. S.........
Panama Canal, Acquisition of......
Panama, Treaty with........
Pilgrims of 1620..

.1901... 28 1903. 389 1912...102 .1902. 157 1895...246

1910..589

1905..126

1904. 142

1908...336

Porto Rico, Act for Civil Government...1901... 93
Postage Stamps, Old, Prices of...

1893...150

Postal Savings Bank Act....

.1911..126

Prohibition Party, Growth of.....

1889... 97

Columbus to Veragua, Pedigree..

1894... 82

Pseudonyms, Literary.

.1904..292

Comets..

..1911... 58

Publicity of Political Contributions.

1912..162

Conemaugh Flood.

1891... 67

Railroad Facts........

.1892...154

Conflagrations, Great,

.1911..272

Railroad Strike of July, 1894

.1895.. 98

Confederate States of America..

..1908..337

Railway Between North and South

.1909..105

1902...156

1890...136

Conservation of Natural Resources,
First Conference of Governors,..

Constitution of the State of New York..1908..164

Constitutional Amendments, Proposed..1890... 78

Constitutions, State.........

Counterfeits, Dangerous.

Country Life, The Commission on.

Cremation, Human.

Cuba, Intervention in 1906......

Cuban Reciprocity Treaty

Currency Act of 1908..

Russian-Japanese War. First Year....1905 133

1910..111 Russian-Japanese War. Second Year.1906..136 1912..342 Samoan Treaty.

...1907..136 Santo Domingo Treaty.

1904...146

1909.. 89

Seismic Disturbances of 1902.

.1901... 92

1908...295

1903..278

1904...28

.1907.. 65

1904...116

1908..227

.1894...102

1886... 50

1888... 68

Religious Bodies, U. S. Census of..... .1910..516
Roosevelt, Theodore, Pedigree..
Russian Duma Called

1908.834

.1906..141

Cyclones, Statistics for 87 Years.......
Czar's Universal Peace Proposal.

..1889... 24 ...1899...106

Dispensary Liquor Law of S. Carolina...1894...108

Earthquakes, Their Cause and Result...1910..444
Electricity, Death Penalty by..

Faribault System of Education..........
Fecundity, Statistics of.

Financial Stringency of 1907.

Fire Waste in the U.S.

Floriculture in the United States..
Free Trade. Movement for.

..1889...114
.1893...185

1895..231

1907..119

1908.388 Solar Energy, Source and Maintenance, 1908..134
1910..276 Solar Parallax and Sun's Distance.....1912.. 58
1892...140 South African War and Map..
South Carolina Liquor Law..
Spain, Treaty of Peace with...
Spanish-American War, History of..
Stars, The Fixed.

Generals of the U. S. Army Since 1776...1902...410

Gold Standard Act of 1900.

Governors of States Since the Adoption

of Their Constitutions.

1900.. 94

.1910..165

.1894...108

1900.. 88

1901... 91

1899.. 64

1900.. 34

1906..120

Sub-Treasury Scheme of the Farmers'

.1902... 49

Alliance

1892... 91

1899... 96

Sunshine, Duration of..

.1912.. 15

Sun Spots, Their Influence on the Earth..1901... 49
Tornadoes, Statistics of, for 87 Years.....1900... 35
Torrens System..

1910..130

Truck Farming in the United States........1892...140
Trusts, Principal....

1908..306

.1896... 67

THE astronomical calculations in this work were expressly made for it by Dr. J. Morrison, and are given in local Mean Time.

Chronological Eras.

The year 1913 corresponds to the year 7421-22 of the Byzantine era; the year 7422 commencing on September 1; 5673-74 of the Jewish era, the year 5674 commencing at sunset on October 1; 2666 since the foundation of Rome according to Varro; 2689 of the Olympiads (or the first year of the 673 Olympiad commencing July 1); 2573 of the Japanese era, and to the first of the Taisei; 1331-32 of the Mohammedan era, the year 1332 beginning on November 30. The 138th year of the Independence of the United States of America begins on July 4, 1913.

Dominical Letter..
Epact

Name.

Chronological Cycles.

11

E Lunar Cycle (Golden Number)11 Roman Indiction
Solar Cycle....
........18 Julian Period..........................6626

22

Date of Beginning of Epochs, Eras, and Periods.

Grecian Mundane Era.....

Civil Era of Constantinople...
Alexandrian Era

Julian Period....

Mundane Era....

Jewish Mundane Era.
Era of Abraham....
Era of the Olympiads..
Roman Era (A. U. C. ).
Metonic Cycle..............

THE Roman Catholic Days of fasting are the forty days of Lent, the Ember Days, the Fridays of the four weeks in Advent, and certain vigils or evenings prior to the greater feasts, while all Fridays of the year are days of abstinence from flesh meat. In the American Episcopal Church the days of fasting or abstinence to be observed, according to the Book of Common Prayer, are the forty days of Lent, the Ember Days, the three Rogation Days, and all the Fridays of the year except Christmas Day. In the Greek Church the four principal fasts are those in Lent, the week succeeding Whitsuntide, the fortnight before the Assumption, and forty days before Christmas,

Divisions of Time.

THE interval between two consecutive transits of a fixed star over any meridian or the interval during which the earth makes one absolute revolution on its axis is called a Sidereal Day, and is invariable, while the interval between two consecutive transits of the Sun over any meridian is called an Apparent Solar Day, and its length varies from day to day by reason of the variable motion of the earth in its orbit and the inclination of this orbit to the equator on which time is measured.

A Mean Solar Day is the average or mean of all the apparent solar days in a year. Mean Solar Time is that shown by a well-regulated clock or watch, while Appɑrent Solar Time is that shown by a well-constructed sun-dial; the difference between the two at any time is the Equation of Time, and may amount to 16 minutes and 21 seconds. The Astronomical Day begins at noon and the Civil Day at the preceding midnight. The Sidereal and Mean Solar Days are both invariable, but one day of the latter is equal to 1 day, 3 minutes, and 56, 555 seconds of the former.

The interval during which the earth makes one absolute revolution round the Sun is called a Sidereal Year, and consists of 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 9. 6 seconds, which is invariable.

The Tropical Year is the interval between two consecutive returns of the Sun to the Vernal Equinox. If this were a fixed point, the Sidereal and Tropical Years would be identical; but in conse quence of the disturbing influence of the Moon and planets on the spheroidal figure of the earth, the Equinox has a slow, retrograde mean motion of 50, 26 annually, so that the Sun returns to the Equinox sooner every year than he otherwise would by 20 minutes 23.6 seconds; the Tropical Year, therefore, cousists of 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds, The Tropical Year is not of uniform length; it is now slowly decreasing at the rate of 595 second per century, but this variation will not always continue.

Julius Caesar, in B, C, 45, was the first to reform the calendar by ordering that every year whose date number is exactly divisible by 4 contain 366 days, and all other years 365 days. The intercalary day was introduced by counting the sixth day before the Kalends of March twice; hence the name bissextile, from bis, twice, and sex, six. He also changed the beginning of the year from 1st of March to the 1st of January, and also changed the name of the fifth month (Quintilis) to July, after himself, The average length of the Julian year is therefore 3654 days, which, however, is too long by 11 minutes and 14 seconds, and this would accumulate in 400 years to about three days. The Julian Calendar continued in use until A. D. 1582, when the date of the beginning of the seasons occurred 10 days later than in B. C. 45, when this mode of reckoning time was introduced.

The Gregorian Calendar was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII. with the view of keeping the Equinox to the same day of the month. It consists of 365 days, but every year exactly divisible by 4 and the centurial years which are exactly divisible by 400 contain 366 days; and if in addition to this arbitrary arrangement the centurial years exactly divisible by 4,000 contain 366 days, the error in the Gregorian system will amount to only one day in about 200 centuries. If, however, 31 leap years were intercalated in 128 years, instead of 32 as at present, the calendar would be practically exact and the error would not amount to more than a day in 100,000 years, The length of the mean Gregorian Year may therefore be set down at 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, 12 seconds. The GregorJan Calendar was introduced into England and her colonies in 1752, at which time the Equinox had retrograded 11 days since the Council of Nice in a. d. 325, when the festival of Easter was established and the Equinox occurred on March 21; hence September 3, 1752, was called September 14, and at the same time the commencement of the legal year was changed from March 25 to January 1, so that the year 1751 lost the months of January and February and the first 24 days of March. The difference between the Julian and Gregorian Calendars is now 13 days. Russia and the Greek Church still employ the Julian Calendar for civil and ecclesiastical purposes,

Standard Time.

PRIMARILY, for the convenience of the railroads, a standard of time was established by mutual agreement in 1883, by which trains are run and local time regulated. According to this system, the United States, extending from 650 to 1250 west longitude, is divided into four time sections, each of 150 of longitude, exactly equivalent to one hour, commencing with the 75th meridian. The first (eastern) section includes all territory between the Atlantic Coast and an irregular line drawn from Detroit to Charleston, S. C., the latter being its most southern point. The second (central) section includes all the territory between the last-named line and an irregular line from Bismarck, N. D., to the mouth of the Rio Grande. The third (mountain) section includes all territory between the lastnamed line and nearly the western borders of Idaho, Utah, and Arizona. The fourth (Pacific) section covers the rest of the country to the Pacific Coast. Standard time is uniform inside each of these sections, and the time of each section differs from that next to it by exactly one hour. Thus at 12 noon in New York City (eastern time), the time at Chicago (central time) is 11 o'clock A. M.; at Denver (mountain tinie), 10 o'clock A. M., and at San Francisco (Pacific time), 9 o'clock A. M. Standard time is 16 minutes slower at Boston than true local time, 4 minutes slower at New York, 8 minutes faster at Washington, 19 minutes faster at Charleston, 28 minutes slower at Detroit, 18 minutes faster at Kansas City, 10 minutes slower at Chicago, 1 minute faster at St. Louis, 28 minutes faster at Salt Lake City, and 10 minutes faster at San Francisco.

Table of Days Between Two Dates.

ATABLE OF THE NUMBER OF DAYS BETWEEN ANY TWO DAYS WITHIN TWO YEARS.

∞ Day Mo.

91 121 152 182 213 244 274 305 335 366 397 425 456 486 517 547 578 609 639 670 700 122 153 183 214 245 275 306 336 2 367 398 426 457 487 518 548 579 610 640 671 701 93 123 154 184 215 246 276 307 337 368 399 427 458 488 519 549 580 611 641 672 702 94 124 155 185 216 247 277 308 338 4 369 400 428 459 489 520 550 581 612 642 673 703 5 5 36 95 125 156 186 217 248 278 309 339 5 370 401 429 460 490 521 551 582 613 643 674 704 6 37 126 157 187 218 249 279 310 340 6 371 402 430 461 491 522 552 583 614 644 675 705 7738 97 127 158 188 219 250 280 311 341 7 372 403 431 462 492 523 553 584 615 645 676 706 8839 67 98 128 159 189 220 251 281, 312 342 8 373 404 432 463 493 524 554 585 616 646 677 707 9 940 68 99 129 160 196 221 252 282 313 343 9 574 405 433 464 494 525 555 586 617 647 678 708 10 10 41 69 100 130 161 191 222 253 283 314 344 10 375 406 434 465 495 526 556 587 618 648 679 709 11 11 42 70 101 131 162 192 223 254 284 315 345 11 376 407 435 466 496 527 557 588 619 649 680 710 12 12 43 71 102 132 163 193 224 255 285 316 346 12 377 408 436 467 497 528 558 589 620 650 681 711 13 13 14 72 103 133 164 194 225 256 255 317 347 13 378 409 437 468 498 539 559 590 621 651 682 712 14 14 45 73 104 134 165 195 226 257 287 318 348 14 879 410 438 469 499 530 560 591 622 652 683 713 15 15 46 74 105 135 166 196 227 258 258 319 349 15, 380 411 439 470 600 531 561 592 623 653 684 714 16 16 47 75 106 136 167 197 228 259 289 320 350 16 381 412 440 471 501 532 562 593 624 654 685 715 17 17 48 76 107 137 168 198 229 260 290 321 351 17 382 413 441 472 502 533 563 594 325 655 686 716 18 18 49 77 108 138 169 199 250 251 291 322 852 18 383 414 442 473 503 534 564 595 626 656 687 717 19 19 50 78 109 139 170 200 231 262 292 523 353 19 384 415 443 474 504 535 565 596 627 657 688 718 20 20 51 79 110 140 171 201 232 253 293 324 354 20 385 416 444 475 505 536 566 597 628 658 589 719 21 21 52 80 111 141 172 202 23 264 294 325 355 21 386 417 445 476 506 537 567 598 629 659 690 720 53 81 112 142 173 233 234 265 295 326 356 22 387 418 446 477 507 538 568 599 630 660 691 721 54 82 113 143 174 204 235 266 296 327 357 23 388 419 447 478 508 539 569 600 631 661 692 723 55 83 114 144 175 205 236 267 297 328 358 24 389 420 448 479 509 540 570 601 632 662 693 723 56 84 115 145 176 206 237 268 298 329 359 25 390 421 449 480 510 541 571 602 633 663 694 724 85 116 146 177 207 238 269 299 330 360 26 391 422 450 481 511 542 572 603 634 664 695 725 86 117 147 178 208 239 270 300 331 361 27 392 423 451 482 512 543 573 604 635 665 696 726 59 87 118 148 179 209 240 271 301 332 362 28 393 424 452 483 513 544 574 605 636 666 697 727 88 119 149 180 210 241 272 302 833 363 29 394 453 484 514 545 575 606 637 667 698 728 89 120 150 181 211 242 273 303 334 364 30 395 451 485 515 546 576 607 638 668 699 729 90 151 212 243 304 36531 396 455 516.... 577) 608 669 730

28 29

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The above table applies to ordinary years only. For leap year, one day must be added to each number of days after February 28.

EXAMPLE.To find the number of days between June 3, 1900, and February 16, 1901: The figures opposite the third day in the first June column are 154; those opposite the sixteenth day in the second February column are 412. Subtract the first from the second product-i. e., 154 from 412, and the result is 258, the number of days between the two dates.

Easter Sunday.

1,

1935-April 21.
1936-April 12.
1937-Mar. 28.
1938-April 17.

A TABLE SHOWING THE DATE OF EASTER SUNDAY IN EACH YEAR OF THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES. 1801-April 5. | 1835-April 19. 1869-Mar. 28., 1902-Mar. 30. 1802-April 18. 1836-April 3. 1870-April 17. 1903-April 12. 1803-April 10, 1837-Mar. 26. 1871-April 9. 1904-April 3. 1804-April 1. 1838-April 15, 1872-Mar. 31. 1905-April 23. 1805-April 14 1839-Mar. 31. 1873-April 13. 1906-April 15. 1806-April 6. 1840-April 19. | 1874-April 5. 1907-Mar. 31. 1807-Mar. 29. 1841-April 11. 1875-Mar. 28. 1908-April 19. 1808-April 17. 1842-Mar. 27. 1876-April 16, 1909-April 11 1809-April 2. 1843-April 16. 1877-April 1910-Mar. 27. 1810-April 22, 1844-April 7. 1878-April 21. 1911-April 16. 1811-April 14, 1845-Mar. 23. 1879-April 13. 1912-April 7. 1812-Mar, 29. 1846-April 12. 1880-Mar. 28. 1913-Mar. 23. 1813-Apri: 18. 1847-April 4, 1881-April 17. 1914-April 12. 1814-April 10. 1848-April 23, | 1882-April 9. 1915-April 4. 1815-Mar. 26, 1849-April 8, 1883-Mar. 25. 1916-April 23. 1816 April 14. 1850-Mar. 31. 1884-April 13. 1917-April 8. 1817-April 6. 1851-April 20, 1885-April 5. 1918-Mar. 31. 1818-Mar. 22. 1852-April 11. 1886-April 25, 1919-April 20, 1819-April 11, 1853-Mar. 27. 1887-April 10, 1920-April 4. 1820-April 2, 1854--April 16. 1888-April 1, 1921 Mar. 27. 1821-April 22. 1855-April 8. 1889-April 21. 1922-April 16. 1822-April 7. 1856-Mar. 23. 1890-April 6, 1923-April 1, 1823-Mar. 30. 1857-April 12, 1891-Mar. 29, 1924-April 20, 1824-April 18 1858-April 4. 1892-April 17. 1925-April 12, 1825-April 3. 1859-April 24, 1893-April 2, 1926-April 4. 1826-Mar. 26. 1860-April 8. 1894-Mar. 25. 1927-April 17. 1827-April 15, 1861-Mar. 31. 1895-April 14. 1928-April 8. 1828-April 6. 1862-April 20. | 1896-April 5, 1929-Mar. 31. 1829-April 19. 1863-April 5, 1897-April 18, 1930-April 20, 1830-April 11. 1864-Mar. 27. 1898-April 10, 1931-April 5, 1831-April 3. 1865-April 16, 1899-April 2, 1932-Mar. 27. 1832-April 22, 1866-April 1. 1900-April 15, 1933-April 16. 1833-April 7. 1867-April 21. 1901-April 7. 1934-April 1. 1884-Mar. 30. 1868-April 12,

1968-April 141969-April 61970-Mar. 29

1971-April 11.

1939-April 9,

1972-April 2

1940-Mar. 24,

1973-April 22.

1941-April 13.

1974-April 14.

1942-April 5.

1975-Mar. 30

1943-April 25.

1976-April 18

1944-April 9.

1977-April 10

1945-April 1.
1946-April 21.

1978-Mar. 26.

1979-April 15.

1947-April 6.1980-April 6.

1948-Mar. 28.

1981-April 19.

1949-April 17.

1982-April 11.

1950-April 9.

1983-April 3.

1951-Mar. 25.

1984-April 22,

1985-April 7. 1986-Mar. 30.

1987-April 19.

1988-April 3.

1989-Mar. 26.

1990-April 15.

1991--Mar. 31.

1959-Mar. 29.

1992-April 19.

1960-April 17.

1993-April 11.

1994-April 3.

1995-April 16.

1996-April 7.

1997-Mar. 30.

1961-April 2.
1962-April 22.
1963-April 14.
1964-Mar. 29.
1965- April 18.
1966-April 10,
1967-Mar. 26,

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Legal Holidays in the Various States,

Legal Holidays in the Various States.

JANUARY 1. NEW YEAR'S DAY: In all States | (including District of Columbia, Porto Rico and Alaska), except Kansas and Massachusetts. (In Maine a bank holiday only legally).

JANUARY 8. ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS: In Louisiana,

JANUARY 19. LEE'S BIRTHDAY: In Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas. FEBRUARY. MARDI-GRAS: In the parish of Orleans, Louisiana.

FEBRUARY 12. GEORGIA DAY: In Georgia. FEBRUARY 12. LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY: In California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming.

FEBRUARY 22, WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY: In all the States, District of Columbia, Porto Rico and Alaska.

MARCH (Third Tuesday). PRIMARY ELECTION
DAY: (every Presidential year) in North Dakota.
MARCH 2. ANNIVERSARY OF TEXAN INDE-
PENDENCE: In Texas.
MARCH 4. INAUGURATION DAY: In District of
Columbia in years when a President of the U.S. is
inaugurated.

MARCH 21, 1913. GOOD FRIDAY: In Alabama,
Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Mary-
land, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Porto Rico, Tennessee.

MARCH 22. EMANCIPATION DAY: In Porto Rico.

ANNUAL SPRING

APRIL (First Monday).
ELECTION: In Michigan.
APRIL 12. HALIFAX INDEPENDENCE RESOLU-
TIONS: In North Carolina.
APRIL 13, THOMAS JEFFERSON'S BIRTHDAY:
In Alabama.
PATRIOTS' DAY: In Maine and

APRIL 19. Massachusetts. APRIL 21.

ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF
SAN JACINTO: In Texas.

APRIL 26, CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY: Pn
Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi.
MAY 10. CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY: In
North Carolina and South Carolina,

In Tennessee.

MAY (Second Friday). CONFEDERATE DAY: MAY 20. ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGNING OF THE MECKLENBURG DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: In North Carolina,

MAY 30. DECORATION DAY: In all the States (and District of Columbia, Porto Rico and Alaska), except Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and

Texas.

JUNE 3. JEFFERSON DAVIS'S BIRTHDAY: In Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas and South Carolina. In Louisiana, known as Confederate Memorial Day." In Virginia, in public schools.

JUNE 11. KAMEHAMEHA DAY: In Territory Hawaii.

JUNE (Last Wednesday). PRIMARY ELECTION
DAY: In North Dakota.

JULY 4. INDEPENDENCE DAY: In all the States,
and District of Columbia, Porto Rico and Alaska.
JULY 10. ADMISSION DAY: In Wyoming.
JULY 15. PIONEER DAY: In Idaho.
JULY 24. PIONEERS' DAY: In Utah.
JULY 25. LANDING OF AMERICAN TROOPS:
Porto Rico.

JULY (Fourth Saturday). PRIMARY ELECTION
DAY: In Texas.

AUGUST. PRIMARY ELECTION DAY: In Missouri. In Michigan (last Tuesday preceding every general November election).

AUGUST 1. COLORADO DAY: In Colorado. AUGUST 16. BENNINGTON BATTLE DAY: In Vermont.

SEPTEMBER 1, 1913 LABOR DAY: In all the

States (and District of Columbia and Alaska). In
Louisiana, observed in Orleans Parish.
SEPTEMBER. PRIMARY ELECTION DAY: In Wis-
consin, First Tuesday. In Oregon, even years.
SEPTEMBER (Third Saturday). REGATTA DAY:
In Territory of Hawaii.

SEPTEMBER 9. ADMISSION DAY: In California.
SEPTEMBER 12. OLD DEFENDERS' DAY":
In Baltimore, Md.

OCTOBER 12. COLUMBUS DAY: In Arkansas. California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont, Washington.

OCTOBER 31. ADMISSION DAY: In Nevada. NOVEMBER. ALL SAINTS' DAY: In Louisiana. NOVEMBER (first Friday), PIONEER DAY: Montana, observed in public schools.

In

NOVEMBER ➡ GENERAL ELECTION DAY: In Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois (in Cairo, Chicago, Danville, East St. Louis, Galesburg, Rockford and Springfield), Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, (from 5.30 A.M. to 9 A. M. only), Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming, in the years when elections are held therein. In 1913 in States holding such eleetions the date is November 4. NOVEMBER 1913. THANKSGIVING DAY (usually the last Thursday in November): Is observed in all the States, and in the District of Columbia, Porto Rico and Alaska, though in some States it is not a statutory holiday.

DECEMBER 25. CHRISTMAS DAY: In all the States (except Kansas), and District of Columbia, Porto Rico and Alaska.

Sundays and Fast Days are legal holidays in all the States which designate them as such.

There are no statutory holidays in Mississippi, but by common consent the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas are observed. In New Mexico, Washington's Birthday, Decoration Day, Labor Day, Flag Day (June 14) and Arbor Day are holidays when so designated by the Governor. In South Carolina, Thursday of Fair Week is a legal holiday.

ARBOR DAY is a legal holiday in many States, although in some it is observed as designated by the Governor.

Every Saturday after 12 o'clock noon is a legal holiday in California in public offices, Illinois (in cities of 200,000 or more inhabitants), Maryland, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, the District of Columbia (for banking purposes), and in New Orleans, La., and Charleston, S. C.; in Louisiana in all cities exceeding 10,000 inhabitants; in Missouri in cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants; in Tennessee, for State and county officers, and in Colorado during June, July and August; in Indiana, first Saturday in June to last Saturday in October, inclusive, for all public offices in counties having a county-seat of 100,000 population or more; in New Hampshire in State offices.

There is no national holiday, not even the Fourth of July. Congress has at various times appointed special holidays. In the second session of the Fifty-third Congress it passed an act making Labor Day a public holiday in the District of Columbia, and it has recognized the existence of certain days as holidays for commercial purposes, but, with the exception named, there is no general statute on the subject. The proclamation of the President designating a day of Thanksgiv ing only makes it a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the Territories.