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Cognate Remarks. 
 
 This Illustration, Introduction and Supplement to the 
 recently published enlarged edition of "Days and Dates," 
 etc., is its own apology for its own anachronism, if apology at 
 all. Brief in free-handed exposition of the subject matter, it 
 may well be found more satisfactory to the casual reader than 
 the crystallized, in other phrase the frozen truth of the tabular 
 statements contained in the main work to which this is tentative 
 and auxiliary. The vital purpose and effect is to record for 
 both Julian and Gregorian Calendars a perfect concordance, 
 respectively, of all week-days and all month-dates of all years, 
 ante and post. 
 
 The Tables of "Days and Dates " exist in the logic of facts 
 known alike to prince and peasant and are perfected under the 
 immutable law of numbers; and therefore I, being but a waif 
 upon an expiring syllable of recorded time, do without a shade 
 of a shadow of presumption move Christendom to take knowl- 
 edge, and especially, Governments to take legislative, executive 
 and judicial knowledge thereof therein and herein. 
 
 Samuel Newton Norton. 
 Eio Vista, California, 
 
 November 20, A. D. 1899. 
 
 BASIC NUMBEBS. 
 
 The consecutive succession of weeks is the basis of every 
 enumeration and point in position stated as a concrete fact 
 either Julian or Gregorian in the Tables of " Days and Dates," 
 recently published. 
 
 Next after every common year of 52 weeks and 1 day, the 
 new-year day is 1 day in the order of week-days beyond the 
 day that began the old-year; and next after every leap-year of 
 52 weeks and 2 days, the new-year day is 2 days in the order of 
 week-days beyond the day that began the old-year. This, since 
 44 B. C. 
 
 The reason of the rule is obvious without comment. I state 
 it here because it is the unimpeachable substruction in the 
 given succession of new-year days-of-the-week in the Tables of 
 " Days and Dates," recently published. 
 
VASTNESS IN AVEKAGE. 
 
 All Calendar accounting consists of vast averages upon 
 actual time. 
 
 The artificial years of Romulus and of Numa were both 
 shorter than the natural year — the former preposterously so — 
 and therefore dated beyond the natural solar seasons, that is, 
 dated them forward; those of Julius Caesar and of Gregory XIII 
 are both longer than the natural year — the former quite appre- 
 ciably so — and therefore fall slowly backward, that is, date the 
 seasons too early. 
 
 The approximation of the Gregorian to Natural time is very 
 close. The existing difference is vastly unimportant. And if 
 in far future years it shall be found desirable and practicable 
 to secure a general world-concurrence in dropping one-at-a-time 
 at intervals of several thousand years apart surplus intercalary 
 dates, the process will be only to designate and drop; the 
 modification of my Days and Dates to fit the change will pro- 
 ceed in my absence, doubtless; our present index cycle of 400 
 years will cease to run, and another like, with a new initial, 
 instantly march on until the next drop, and so on. 
 
 ALWAYS EXCEPT CATACLYSM. 
 
 In every period of 400 years the Julian system dates 100 and 
 the Gregorian 97 leap-years — 3 day -dates difference; therefore 
 in 122 periods of 400 years, Gregorian gains 366 day-dates, 
 (a maximum artificial year-date) more than the Julian, in the 
 same actual time. 
 
 Hence, 400x122 == 48,800 Julian years — Kussian style (Greek 
 Church) — would include and contain just 48,801 Gregorian 
 years — Catholic and Protestant style — that is 48,801 years and 
 about 13 J- days, of Nature's Sun Style. "D's and D's,'' re- 
 cently published. It is there shown that Feb. 29, A. D. 200, 
 would have been Feb. 28 under the Gregorian System, that 
 March 1, and all subsequent dates until Feb. 29, A. D. 300, 
 Julian, would have been common to both Systems, that the 
 last named day would have been dated March 1, a gain of 1 
 date for the Gregorian, that since that time similar gains 
 amount to 3 dates in every 400 years until Feb. 29, A. D. 1800, 
 Julian, was dated March 12, A. D. 1800, Gregorian, that Feb. 
 29, A. D. 1900, Julian will bo dated March 13, A. D. 1900, 
 
 
Gregorian, 1 more day gain, and so on until Feb. 29 A. D. 
 48,900 Julian is Feb 28 A. D. 48,901 Gregorian, and both run 
 just 1 year apart the same month dates 100 years, and Feb. 29 
 A. D. 49,000 is March 1 A. D. 49,001 Gregorian, 1 year and 1 day 
 apart in dating the same actual time, of which, nearly 14 days 
 will exist without date, even in the Gregorian, which will have 
 overlapped them at the rate of less than half of 1 minute each 
 year, by reason of its plus intercalary "error;" while the 
 Julian with its precisely similar* but far greater "error" will 
 have trespassed a full year more, at the rate of more than 11 
 minutes a year. The effect is that their dates fall backward in 
 the seasons; not that actual time is or can be "lost" at all. 
 
 To practically equate with Nature, the Gregorian system 
 will need only to drop a day-date every three or four thousand 
 years if the world is willing. Easy quite when people agree. 
 
 Just as it is now, the Gregorian would be a treasure to the 
 world for all time. Recession of but a day-date upon the solar 
 seasons during thousands of years is so slow and gradual that 
 temporalities would conform by sheer habit alone and never 
 suffer by it. And it would seem that anniversaries and memo- 
 rial days, whether sacred, profane, or mixed, would not be 
 seriously affected by such slight and slow changes in the 
 weather — for, to make the full round of the seasons would 
 require largely more than 1J million of years. 
 
 LAST AND GREATEST. 
 
 The year was the last disclosure to man in accounting natural 
 time. Days were instantly suggested as in the beginning; there 
 was evening and morning, 1 day. Then came the seven-day 
 period for rest, doubtless from natural fatigue. Superstition 
 and succession named months, and personal ambition often 
 changed the names. The convenient divisions of the day into 
 hours, minutes and seconds were familiarly marked by various 
 devices long before the number of days in the year was even 
 respectably approximated. Romulus the founder of Rome first 
 guessed it 304; then 310; then gave up the ghost and the guess 
 together; and Pompilius Numa his royal successor fixed on the 
 number 365, long held by the Romans a gift of the gods — and 
 it was indeed very close, for those times. 
 
 But as the decades and centuries of years watched the fall 
 
 The "similar" of Geometry. 
 
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 of Persian, the decline of Grecian, the culmination of Roman 
 empire, the 365-day year of Numa dated December weather 
 gradually forward all the way to May, and veneration for the 
 traditions of Numa prevented amendment. 
 
 Even when Caius Julius Caesar at the height of his dictatorial 
 power intimated the abrogation of the Numan calendar and the 
 setting up of his own 365J-day year, the high-born wits, among 
 them the peerless orator Cicero, made sportful ridicule of his 
 intention. Not the less he decreed it, and that decree is his 
 enduring fame to-day. Issued B. C. 46, to take effect B. C. 44, 
 himself assassinated B. C. 45, the calendar of the great auto- 
 crat commoner did take effect as prescribed, springing up from 
 the blood-sodden ashes of his death-pyre at Rome to mark by 
 annual month and day-dates the times and seasons for seeding 
 and springing, flower and fruit, harvest and vintage, ruth and 
 storm, during millenniums of years not then yet numbered — 
 nor yet. The Russians and all orthodox Greek-Churchmen still 
 account time by the Julian Calendar instituted B. C. 44, and 
 adopted by the grand initial Christian Council held at Nice in 
 Bithynia, Asia Minor, under tho auspices of the illustrious 
 Imperator Constantine, A. D. 325. A full index cycle in the 
 monumental mirror of Time's flight across the ages of darkness, 
 precedes in "Days and Dates," recently published, the more 
 sunwisely accurate Gregorian Calendar instituted A. D. 1582, 
 and now dating for all Catholic and Protestant Christian 
 nations. 
 
 To the unquestioning obedience of his faithful Catholic 
 Churchmen at the inception of his correction and amendments 
 to the Julian Calendar, Gregory XIII owed the tardy but full 
 compliance of the Protestants within two centuries later. Truth 
 leaned on faith until identified as fact. Purely scientific and 
 practical in its approach toward perfect definition in the Calen- 
 dar year, the Gregorian System is, in catch phrase, "near 
 enough ' to perfection. Absolute equasion rests forever yet 
 with Deity. The Gregorian has since its inception in A. D. 
 1582 advanced less than a full index cycle, but reflexion on its 
 principle demonstrates that the least number of perpetual repe- 
 tition is precisely 400 years. Tn " Days and Dates," recently 
 published, the detail by years far exceeds and thus illustrates 
 the index cycle of the Gregorian Calendar as applied to future 
 
time, up to A. D. 2282. Yet the application with equal certainty 
 is implied to infinity. See Infra, p.p. 10, et seq. 
 
 WHEREFORE ? 
 
 Why was " Days and Dates " made ? To do good. To fill 
 a place and meet a want not always though often keenly felt 
 and never yet satisfactorily supplied. Its talk is talk, like this 
 is, its Tables incarnate fact and work, every letter an archangel 
 for truth, the Arabic sign its guidon in the plane of time. 
 There is no lapse, omission or misplacing in the Tables of 
 "Days and Dates," recently published. The substruction is 
 without fault, and being so, requires correct reading and mental 
 process, nothing more, to find the fact sought. It can neither 
 be nor lead to error. The searcher must be certain in his search 
 thereof not the less. 
 
 The indispensable common Almanac shows for one year the 
 concordance of days-of-the-week and dates-of-the-month. In 
 that regard " Days and Dates" is the Almanac of all years, 
 past and future, under either the Julian or Gregorian styles. 
 The fact is easily demonstrable. Indeed the method of the 
 work itself is demonstration. " Days and Dates " ought to live 
 long as the existing Calendar Systems, for it is the truth of 
 exemplification in their process. 
 
 I premise that every Court of Record and all competent 
 public functionaries in Christendom " take judicial knowledge," 
 that is, accept in evidence without further proof, the week-days 
 and month dates set forth in usual year almanacs. In view of 
 the unimpeachable basic principles followed in the formation of 
 the Tables in "Days and Dates," and the superlative care 
 taken to give them a perfect letter press, free from mistake 
 or lapse in any particular whatsoever, I respectfully suggest 
 and bespeak for my work the like judicial recognition in con- 
 cordance of days-of-the-week and dates-of-the-month during 
 all years under the respective Julian and Gregorian Calendar 
 Systems as that aforesaid quoted taken. 
 
 General belief and confidence, neither in part nor with 
 reserve nor halting, but conscientious, entire, full and free, 
 would place " Days and Dates " in a position it deserves on its 
 merits as a standard reference. The knowledge and confidence 
 of the author amounts to certainty, and such I seek to impart. 
 
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 Every sort of intelligent people have at least occasional use 
 for the information found in " Days and Dates." In most such 
 cases, the requirement is urgent, instant. In other phrase, 
 
 " When you want it, you want it bad," that is, 'twould be good 
 to have right off; and in very many cases it would be curious, 
 pleasant, comfortable to know the concordance of a certain day 
 of a certain year in the past or future as to its week-day and 
 month-date. The satisfactions of humanity consist largely of 
 trifles. Yet, ' ' Days and Dates " was made chiefly for business 
 men and the uses of business, in commerce as well as in law — 
 and all essentials else. 
 
 THE SIMPLE CYCLES, 
 Of New- Year Days-of-the-Week. 
 We have said that new-year days-of-the-week conform to the 
 inexorable law of 365 and 366- day years, and form the base of 
 the system in "Days and Dates." 
 
 tf These new-year days-of-the-week are repeated often, in 
 perfect order according to the respective Julian and Gregorian 
 plan of years. The period of such repetition is a cycle of each 
 initial new-year day-of-the-week. The cycles differ in periods. 
 The same period numbers are never consecutive in the Julian, 
 and only at and laterally from the non-bissextile hundredth 
 years of the Gregorian. There are but three simple cycles in 
 the Julian, to wit: 5, 6, 11, years. There are five in the 
 Gregorian, to wit: 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, years, but the single 7 and 
 two 12s only appear at the non-bissextile hundredth years, 
 when they always interlock each other and embrace the year 
 jointly in the same form precisely, though not from the same 
 initial days-of-the-week always. 
 
 The situation exists at this moment, continuing from January 
 1, 1898, to January 1, 1903, and will not agaiu be renewed until 
 the dawn of the 22d century, 200 years hence. If disposed to 
 superstition of the preternatural cast, we might quote the 
 stupendous events in history during the 5-y ears- embrace by the 
 single 7 aud two 12-year cycles, thrice performed in the last 
 three centuries. But soft, we have more than three of our 5 
 years, yet to run— the first If years has been astonishment. 
 Unparalleled murder! Unparalleled victories! Unparalleled 
 armaments exhibit the unspoken argument of force and fear 
 
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 throughout the planet. In almost silence the giants pile Oeta 
 on Ossa, Ossa on Pelion, Pelion on Olympus. All cannot end 
 in preparation, and it, like action, must cease at times. 
 
 Probably war is a necessity of human nature. We cannot 
 erase the truth that man is created a fighting animal. It is 
 better that he should fight some of the time than to be prepar- 
 ing to fight, all the time. 
 
 THE INDEX CYCLES. 
 
 These of the Julian and Gregorian Systems, respectively, 
 point to every day date cognate to each, as now practiced. 
 The Julian carries its own, the Gregorian its own, each is 
 known, and each according to its finite devices in system, is, 
 through virtue in the law of numbers, infinite and infallible in 
 process, however differing in respective results. 
 
 Demonstration of these indicial periods by actual compari- 
 son of items in the unimpeachable Tables of ' ' Days and Dates " 
 is direct proof of them in the positive concrete, and dispenses 
 with the less satisfactory abstractions of theory in mathematics. 
 
 The concrete exists ; the abstract ratiocinates. 
 
 JULIAN INDEX CYCLE. 
 
 This is a composite of the simple cycles 5 + 6 + 11 + 6 = 28 
 years, and at that period is repeated consecutively forever, and 
 constitutes the entire system of New- Year Day-of-the-Week 
 Cycles in the Julian Calendar. Every day named in the Julian 
 is necessarily repeated under the law of numbers 28 years distant 
 from its station in time date. Thus, the cycle repeated con- 
 secutively forever becomes through its constituent members a 
 perpetual index to each and all of them. Every multiple of the 
 cyclic period is one of many consecutive repetitions of that 
 primary and possessed of all its indicial quality except that of 
 lesser duration. Hence 28x25=700 years, the first hundredth 
 year Index Cycle of the Julian Calendar System. It is far more 
 convenient for application than any lesser multiple or the 
 primary itself can be. Of course any multiple of a multiple 
 is a multiple of the primary and carries chief quality as a per- 
 fect Index Cycle; as, 1400, 14,000, 56,000; no fear of error by 
 reason of immensity. 
 
 In the Julian the simple cycles 5 + 6 + 11 + 6 stand always in 
 the same relation to each other as to succession, which is vibra- 
 
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 tor j, so to speak, that is, in common speech, " back and forth." 
 Either may lead but the order not be broken. Thus, they form 
 either 5 + 6 + 11 + 6=28 or 6 + 11 + 6 + 5=28 or 11 + 6 + 5 + 6=28 
 or 6 + 5 + 6 + 11=28 in the Julian Calendar, always. See Table 
 I of " Days and Dates." 
 
 GKEGOBIAN INDEX CYCLE. 
 
 The composite cycle 5 + 6 + 11 + 6 = 28 years, cuts a large 
 figure also in the Gregorian Calendar System, but is only inter- 
 mittently consecutive there, therefore not permanently indicial. 
 The simple cycles maintain the same relation and succession as 
 in the Julian except when within the disturbing influence of the 
 non-bissextile hundredth years with their strange cycles, the 
 single 7 and two 12s and the quartette of triple consecutive 6s. 
 
 The primary Index Cycle of the Gregorian Calendar is a vast 
 and complex co-composite of just 400 years, and at that period 
 is repeated consecutively forever, and includes the entire system 
 of New-Year Day-of-the-Week Cycles in the Gregorian, as now 
 and heretofore practiced. This Cycle invariably consists of 10 
 composite Cycles of 28 and 3 of 40 years each, but no series, in 
 its detail is ever precisely duplicated except in perpetual 
 repetition of itself consecutively, both ante and post. 
 
 Every day named in the Gregorian is necessarily repeated 
 under the law of numbers 400 years distant from its station in 
 time date. Thus, the cycle repeated consecutively forever 
 becomes through its constituent members a perpetual index to 
 each and all of them. Every multiple of the cyclic period is 
 one of many consecutive repetitions of that primary, and 
 possessed of all its indicial quality except that of lesser dura- 
 tion. Thus, multiples of 400 years, as 800, 8000, 10,000, etc., 
 etc., aro perfect Index Cycles of the Gregorian Calendar 
 System. No fear of error by reason of immensity. 
 
 The following is the series of sub-cyclos that make up the 
 400-year perpetual index of A. Ds. 1601, 2001, etc. It shows 
 tho important subordinate function of the 28-year and 40-year 
 composites, and the curious links of Special Cycles near the 
 non-bissextile hundredth years where the 40 year composite 
 only <*md invariably appears. Every year of the 400 discloses 
 resembling but not identical series, except in aggregate period 
 and equal composites. Tho one hero presented covers the 
 
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 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th CENTURIES; 
 to wit: Years, beginning with A. D. 1601: 
 6 + 11 + 6 + 5= ... - 
 6 + 11 + 6 + 5= .... 
 
 6+11+6+5= - 
 6 + 12 + 11 + 6 + 5= .... 
 6 + 11 + 6 + 5= - 
 6 + 11 + 6 + 5= .... 
 
 6 + 11 + 12 + 6 + 5= - 
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 Ending with A. D. 2000= 400 years. 
 
 Refer to Table 1 + , of " Days and Dates." 
 
 The rather usual impression from a first glance at that 
 Table I + of " Days and Dates," is that of a hopelessly tangled 
 chain! Never think so. Not a link is misplaced or missing. 
 The immutable law of numbers reigns there. Every letter and 
 figure is correct and true. 
 
 The Index Cycle is for all years, and perfectly flexible. 
 Just 400 or any multiple of 400 years from any New-Year Day- 
 of-the-Week, that day was and is to be forever repeated and 
 followed by all other days of its year in their regular order of 
 Qregorian time and each in separate cycle. 
 
 In the Julian Calendar of "Days and Dates," the Tables 
 and Index Cycle are equally correct, in that Style. 
 
 THE CENTURY BRIDGE. 
 
 Very likely the scientific author of the Gregorian Calendar 
 never dreamed of the splendid muddle in new-year day-of-the 
 week cycles that result from his dropping 3 of every 4 hundredth 
 year intercalary dates. He was of mature years. The first 
 drop was decreed for A. D. 1700. He could not hope to see it 
 with mortal eyes that in A. D. 1582 had already seen the cul- 
 mination of his physical powers. 
 
 *A. D. 1899 is the 23d year of this composite. See Table I-f- of "Days and 
 Dates. 
 
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 Probably this incidental effect, if thought of at all was dis- 
 missed as of no consequence. Yet it has consequences of much 
 importance. From new and strange Cycles and grouping of 
 Cycles joined with the old the great primary Index Cycle to 
 the Gregorian System is finally derived; and demonstrated; 
 although the practice of the System is more than four-score 
 years short of a single tally on its own Index. 
 
 The apparent eccentricity in 400 series of Gregorian Com- 
 posites, not one of them the analogue of another and seeming 
 to buffet each other with hopeless contradiction abstract and 
 concrete, yet each immutably loyal to return at the guidon 
 period of 400 years to its precise initial point of repetition, 
 seems to me, even after study enough to demonstrate the fact, 
 astonishment. Old Time himself appears as an adept in 
 studied negligence. The stupendous echelon of 146,097 dates 
 sweeps down the ages, each date in its separate cycle of 400 
 years, forever repeating under the law of God's numbers the 
 feeble invention of a human average upon actual time. It is 
 supreme order reigning over chaos; and nothing less than the 
 snail-like work of tabulating in Days and Dates could have 
 convinced me beyond all doubt of its truth. 
 
 I subjoin the first composite from each of several series 
 taken at random from Table 1+ of " Days and Dates." 
 
 A. D. 
 1775. 
 1776. 
 1750. 
 1782. 
 1777. 
 1779. 
 1780. 
 1792. 
 1828. 
 1819. 
 1797. 
 1791. 
 1698. 
 1583. 
 
 11+6+5+7+5+6: 
 
 A. D. 
 
 :40+, ending 2175. 
 
 5+6+11+12+6=40+, 
 6+5+6+11=28+, 
 6+5+6+6+6+11=40+, 
 6+1 1+6+6+6+5=40+ 
 1 1+6+6+6+5+6=40+ 
 5+6+12+11+6=40+, 
 5+7+5+6+11 + 6=40 + , 
 
 5 + 6 + 11 + 6=28 + , 
 
 6 + 11 + 6 + 5=28 + , 
 
 7 + 5 + 6 + 11 + 6 + 5 40 + , 
 12 + 11 + 6 + 5 + 6=40 + , 
 12+6+5+6+11=40+, 
 11 + 6 + 5 + 6=28 + , 
 
 2176. 
 2150. 
 2182. 
 2177. 
 2179. 
 2180. 
 2192. 
 2228. 
 2249. 
 2197. 
 2191. 
 2098. 
 1983. 
 
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 Friday, October 15, A. D. 1982 will repeat, at the first per- 
 petual Index Cycle in living practice of the Gregorian System. 
 See Table II + of Days and Dates. It is noticeable. Every 
 day-date of every year is a subject of the Index Cycle. 
 
 The Century Bridge of Cycles, a voiceless monitor, a sheen, 
 a glamor, a halo, a what-not, a mystic we heed not, a meaning 
 we wot not, broods and beckons or shines and smiles at the 
 crossing. There the two strange apostolic 12s toss their great 
 arms interlocking over the non-bissextile hundredth year, and 
 the sole 7 of all the Cycles extends its symbol of creation, inter- 
 locking them both and it and us, even now. Two commoner 
 lis support each regal 12, two sturdy plebeian 5s flank the 
 sacred 7, and a quartette of triple-consecutive 6s settles upon 
 the structure and completes — what might be a picture. 
 
 The Time Chart at page 2, supra, presents a section of 24 
 years, 12 on each side of the century crossing. Curved lines 
 point out the various cycles and segments of cycles within the 
 section limits. Numerals designate the 5s, the 7, the lis, the 
 12s, but not the quartette of triple 6s which appears in 2 inter- 
 lacing groups which would be marred and confused by perching 
 a flight of figures 6 among them ; they are clearly known and 
 shown by the 12 crowns of their 12 half circle line pointers; 
 not one of +Jieir lines is cut by the section limits; they begin, 
 respectively, at, and extend to> (observe the italics) New Year 
 days, as follows : 
 
 At 1889 Tuesday, to 1895, to 1901, to 1907; 
 
 " 1890 Wednesday, "1896, "1902, "1908; 
 
 " 1893 Sunday, " 1899, " 1905, " 1911; 
 
 " 1894 Monday, " 1900, " 1906, " 1912. 
 
 4 fractional pointer lines of 6s and 1 of 5, none of them with 
 
 numerals, all cut by the section limits, all single simple cycles, 
 
 all members of the grand 40-year composite, all peimitted to 
 
 enter this cyclic parlor section set with but one foot, and, save 
 
 one, all of same radii as the triple consecutives, must not be 
 
 mistaken as of the latter though partly just as good looking; 
 
 to wit, extending to 1891 a 6, to 1892 a 6; beginning at 1909 
 
 a 6, at 1910 a 6, at 1912 a 5. 
 
 Every item of the chart is justified by Table 1+ of " Days 
 and Dates." I am sponsor for its designation as " The Century 
 
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 Bridge of Cycles," which name is a pure draught of imagination 
 upon Architecture inspiring geometric truth as of timo meas- 
 ures by the Gregorian System. Its subjective points in numer- 
 ical year dates and cycles have had heretofore, and while the 
 Gregorian remains unchanged will have hereafter, the same 
 geometric relation to every non-bissextile hundredth year; yet 
 the names of days at those subjective points differ and repeat as 
 absolute subjects of the Index Cycle 400. Thus, the day names 
 of these subjective points in relation to A. D. 1900 will repeat 
 for 2300 but not for 2200 nor 2100 nor either for either other. 
 Nevertheless the subjective points will possess day names and 
 The Century Bridge of Cycles will exist for all such years in 
 same form, situation and cycles as for A. D. 1900. 
 
 Against any possible doubt or denial whatever by whom- 
 soever of any item in the Tables of "Days and Dates" I here 
 set up in advance the formal law joinder, In nullo est erratum. 
 
 CHANGE OF THEME— APROPOS. 
 
 This chestnut grew within my own observation in early 
 youth, near the country town of my nativity. There have 
 been many versions, this is the true one. A clergyman, a 
 good not old gentleman, essayed gardening for exercise, and 
 one morning found a squash plant peeping from the ground 
 apparently to him wrong end first. (The leaf base uppermost 
 a.s orderly squashes are wont to do.) He with his trowel 
 forthwith gently assisting raised the earth— not the planet — 
 together with the plant— note that he " raised " that squash — 
 and .set it down the other way, stood it on its head, looked 
 at lirst wise, then otherwise, then earefully restored it to the 
 normal position, smiled approval and— told it on himself for a 
 moral. * * * * 
 
 Everybody and hia wife liked that man and his wife. So 
 
 did I not three Eeet high. May this Introduction to " Days 
 and Dates" two years post acquaintance find so much <>f 
 
 COnsiderateneSS as our minister gave to the squash. 
 
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