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his pensioner and then staring as Brown drew from his pocket the let ter he had received at the hotel. In a moment Brown saw that the ad dress on the envelope had startled Mr. Thorpe. As the latterjperused it his handsome face broke into a smile of the most wonderful delight "Where did you get this?" he chal lenged quickly, and Brown explained. Mr. Thorpe hastened in search of the captain of the steamer. He bribed him to make a landing so he could return to the town. He motioned to Brown to follow hinj to land. Very briefly he made Brown under stand that he had come to the place to make up a quarrel with the young lady he loved. The delayed letter, an answer to his, had sent him away, intending to never return, but Brown 'had saved the day: "My friend," said the grateful Thorpe, "you have proved yourself a jewel. You say you are a piano tuner?" "Yes, sir," assented Brown. "Well, I shall lodge you at the ho tel at my expense, get you a new rig, and why! I'll buy you a little piano factory and start you in business for what you've done for me!" o o LEAP YEAR To understand what leap year is you must first remember that the exact length of the year is the period of time which it takes for the earth to move through its orbit about the sun. This is 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46 seconds. But as it would be extremely inconvenient to reckon this fraction of a day on every cal endar it is omitted for a certain num ber of years when it appears as the extra day in a year of 366 days. As tronomers have figured that the cal endar can be perfectly computed by adding this extra day to all years whose numbers are divisible by 4 or 400. February is then given 29 in stead of 28 days, and the first of March thus "leaps over" the one ad ditional df It IF YOU -LOVE-.HER, YOU MUST LTQVE"HER D,OG, TOO Miss Vivienne Conline One of the popular leaders of Washington society and a dog fan cier of note as well. She" is daughter of Maj. John Conline, U. S. A., re tired, and Mrs. Coiiline. ) o It's mighty hard-to-please a wom an. If you stare at her she thinks you rude, and if you don't she thinks I you Jack- taste.