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4 JUNIOR EAGLE SECTION Seven Famous American Fighters CHILDREN'S MUSEUM NOTES. SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 23, 1919. THE Children's Museum has a number of very interesting aquaria. Some arc small ana contain a few goldfish and snails, whilo others are largo and more unusual.

Tho most Interesting are the "balanced aquaria." By this The Junior Eagle, the Children'a Section of The Brooklyn Dily Eagle, aewtpaper for boyt and girls. On Sunday it it complete eight-page publication; on weekdays the Junioi it part of a page in the Picture Supplement. All boyt and girli are invited to contribute. Original itoriel, aletchei and photograph! of intereit to young people are acceptable. Write on only one aide of the paper and give name, addresi and age.

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term wo mean that the plant and rllSllllllll' animal lifo ia In such proportion that tho water is always fresh ana never has to bo changed. Such an aquarium is prepared as follows: (1) l'laco In tho receptacle, water and carefully washed gravel. Tho surface of the gravel Is made to slopo from tho sides and back toward the center and front, in order that any refuse and dirt may settle in tho depression formed, from which it can he conveniently removed. LAX now for Bo Kind to Animals Week, April 14 to 19, ami Humane Sunday, April 20. is cruel to have your doer follow your automobile either take him I (2) Hot In aquatic vegetation.

Tho purpose of the plants is to furnish oxygen to tho lishes which arc introduced later, but until the plants take root, they do not give off oxygen. Thereforo tho plants are allowed a week In which to get a start in tho gravel before the llshcs are placed in the water. The following is a list of the plants used: Sagittaria pusilla, Ana-oheris canadensis, l'otomagclon in or leave him at home. Discourage the cruelty of making dogs run after motor cars, whenever you see'it practised. crispus, Seirpus cernus, Nitella gracilis, Chara, Ulricularia minor It? (lloating plant), water violet (young water lily plant).

(3) Fragments of ash or clinkers aro introduced on account of the chemicals, beneficial to animal life, which they contain, and beeauso of their unique appearance on the bot tom of the aquarium. sons j. (4) The "setting up" process necessarily clouds the water and litters it with bits of plants. To hasten tho clearing up of the water, snails are introduced, because these ani NOTHING so endangers the fineness of the human heart as the possession of power over others; nothing so corrodes it as the callous or cruel exercise of that power, and the more helpless the creature over whom power is cruelly exercised the more the human heart is corroded. IN the reconstruction of disabled men perhaps no invent! m.

ha come to light that will be of more practical value than a rem arkabie mechanical hand. Natural finger, thumb and wrist moUons are so closely imitated that it is possible to take a handkerchief from the pocket, use a pen or pencil, adjust handle a safely, 'and innumerable other actions. i ONE little girl in Burford Bridge, England, has made a record of having killed 1,415 butterflies in a butterfly killing held in the schools of that district. We wonder what tnere may be about so beautiful and harmless an insect as a butterfly to warrant engaging school children in such a murderous employment, and we hope there were more than a few children who made a very poor showing in the competition, believing that for most of them the contest offered little inspiration. TO public school teachers everywhere, especially those in grammar grades, who would like to celebrate Humane Day in their Schools, April 15, wo will send, without cost, a copy of the eight-page pamphlet of Humane Exercises prepared for the schools of Massachusetts for usa last year.

A similar new publication for 1919 will be available early in April, at cost. Address Our Dumb Animals, 180 I.ongwood avenue, Boston. mals are good scavengers. (5) A wlro netting makes a good cover. The fishes placed In the aquarium were sword-tailed minnows, found in Mexico and Central America (the malo grows to 3 inches, of which the tail is one-half), and Poeellla Spanish-American War.

and later stilt he was prominent in the Mexican border warfare. Now he stands In tho "limelight" of our band of heroes as the one who led the Yanks to a victorious end of the world war. I'ershing is descended from an Alsatian family tree. Ho was born September 13, ISiiO, and was primarily educated to bo a schoolteacher, but his desires and qualifications secured him the entrance to the United States Military Academy, whence he graduated in 1SSG. LAST but not least in our list of seven famous American lighters Is John J.

I'ershing, commander of about 2,000,000 American boys in Europe. Gen. I'ershing was a "fighter" from the time when he could de-eido his future career in life, lie graduated from West Point, and us soon as he had donned his army uniform was assigned to the Sixth Cavalry then lighting tho Apache wars in the Southwest. I'ershing fought valiantly in the ignyppl, founa in Venezuela, Trlnl-Vlad and Colon. Itoth species are Viviparous that is, bear their young alive.

Tho tanks rest on a shelf about 4 Inches above the radiator. Young people who wish to learn how to maintain aquaria in their homes can receive all tho help necessary at the Children's Museum. A special pamphlet vgiving full directions for tho work in aquarium study can bo obtained by applying to tho Museum. Attention, Juniors! The Relief Drive for Our Needy-Brethren in Europe Begins March 3. Help! Give now, give today, and there will be childish lips in Armenia lhat will pray for' you, there will be mother hearts that will bless you, there will bo men who will remember your actr of brotherhood and humanity to the end of their days.

Help feed these people. Help bind up their wounds, it is little to do and tho reward is great and sure. Rose Pickers of Bulgaria Roosevelt's Appeal to the Boys of America and would wish to oxalf thumsulvi'S at the expense 'of their comrades; and I did not wish any man with mo unless ho was prepared In put the honor of tho regiment and the army and tho flag ilrst of all. If a man of the wrong type got into the regiment and I found that though brave he was thinking only of bis own advancement and-shirked doing work that might help others, or intrigued against them, or failed to support them, 1 got rid of him or discriminated against hiin or else took the first chance to punish him as roughly as I could. The best work could bo done by tho men who, in addition to possessing formidable fighting qualities, had the desire to help others and tho willingness to sink their own advantage in the common advantage.

What was true on very small scale in my regiment Is true on a very large scale of American citizenship as a whole. Tho boy is not worth anything if he is not eflleiciit. I have no use for -mollycoddles, 1 have no use for timid boys, for tho "sissy" typo of boy. I want to see a boy able to hold his own and ashamed to flinch. Hut ns one clement of this ability to hold his own.

I wish to see him contemptuously Indifferent to tho mean or brutal boy who calls him "sissy" or a mollycoddle because he is clean ami decent and considerate to others. If a boy is not fearless and energetic, ho is a poor creature; but ho is an even poorer creature if he is a bully of smaller boys or girls, if lie is guilty of cruel mischief, and if in his own homo, and especially In his relations with his own mother and sisters, ho is selfish and unfeeling. I believe in play with all my heart; but I believo in work even more. Whilo bny or man plays, 1 want to sec him play hard; and when he works I don't want to sea him play at all. and treated that wwrk as in itself a great reward.

Tho two greatest men in our history are Washington and Lincoln. They possessed great ability, great intellect, and especially great sanity of mind; but it was tho fact that they eacli possessed tho highest character both very strong and very unselfish, which gave them Mieir pro-eiiiinoneo over their fellows. There have been very ublo and very unscrupulous statesmen In our history. But not ono of them lias ever come within even measurable distance of the achievements of Washington and Lincoln, or of tho reputation of Washington and Lincoln; and this precisely because they were unscrupulous, because they lacked character. Let mo illustrate what I mean by a small example taken from my own experience: When lll'teru years ago I was helping to raise tho regiment of Hough ltiders, 1 did my best to get both as ollieers and enlisted men those men only, who I believed would make formidable lighters in a battle, rugged men in a campaign, and men of indomitable purpose to sco the war through.

I would not take any man who was not strong, hardy, bravo, aide to live in the open, able to handle both horse and rifle. But even if the man had all these qualities, if he were quarrelsome or egotistical, or bent on his own selfish advancement, and If I knew that this was tho case, I would not take him. If he eared only for himself I was sure that he would bo apt to bo a bad instead of a good element, in tho regiment. There were sonio men from the plains whom I refused, although I knew that they were formidable lighting men, because also knew lhat they were quarrelsome bullies THROUGH Hoys' Life, the Boy Scouts Magazine, I wish to send this message, not only to the Boy Scouts, but to all the boys of America. 'flic primo lesson that tho Boy Scout movement is teaching is the lesson that manliness in its most vigorous form can be and ought to be accompanied by unselfish consideration for the rights and Interests of others.

Indeed, I can go a litllo further. I wish that I could make tho especial appeal to tho American boy to remember that unless ho thinks of others ho cannot fit himself to do thq best work in any great emergency. The names in our history to which wo now look back with prido are tho names who have rendered great service. This service may have been rendered at the same time that they themselves gained glory or reputation. But neither the glory nor the reputation would have been gained save as an Incident to the service.

In our history there is now practically no mention of any great financier, or any great business man. who merely mado money for himself. If at some crisis In tho nation's history that financier rendered a great national service, or if ho identified himself in useful fashion with some great movement for good, whether in art or philanthropy or otherwise, then his name remains. But even under these conditions it remains as of secondary value. America's contribution to permanent world history has been made by the statesmen and soldiers whose devotion to the country equaled their efficiency, by men of science, men of art, men of letters, by sane and honest reformers and social workers, who did great work IP you could visit tho rose fields of Bulgaria in tho early hours of a June morning, you would find tho peasant folk busy gathering roses.

Everyone who can goes to the fields to pick roses. Tho picturesque costumes amid the blooms of roses look very beautiful to one standing on a hilltop overlooking the sea of flowers. The roses aro gathered whilo the dew is still fresh upon them, bo-cause tho roses yield more attar if gathered beforo the heat of the sun dries out tho leaves. As the baskets aro tilled with open and half-open buds and blossoms, they aro taken the distillery nearby, whero the altar is drilled. It Is said that it takes 100,000 roses to yield one ounce of tho attar of rose.

The best roso grown for this essence is known as the Damask rose. Tho bushes are planted close together in rows that look like hedges from a distance. Tho history of llulgaria shows that it has always been oppressea by tho Turk; and when the ambitious German Kmplra offered the liulgars independence in exchange for their entering tho war they wildly accepted tho pledge, hoping to bo forever free from tho yoke of tho heathen. Hut we know how Germany kept Its word. It is doubtful if tho peaceful Industry of rose growing in Bulgaria will over again reach its standard, for in the south of Franco the rose Is now grown successfully and attar is distilled that is said to bp equal to lhat of Bulgaria-Country Life..