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JUNIOR EAGLE SECTION. SUNDAY, FE 1 5 lfl 71 Olga Biolsi, 71 Nassau St, Brooklyn. Stories by Nieces and Nephews TO MY VALENTINE Drawn by He helped his father in the farm work. He split rails. He later took two voyages to New Orleans by boat.

He worked in a store and was an honest and truthful man. Later in Lincoln's life he became the President of the United States. two years atfer Lincoln became President the Battle of Gettysburg was fought 'July, 1863). Lincoln made a brief speech, "The Gettysburg Ad dress." On April 14, 1865, Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth in Ford Theater. Wash ington, and died the following day.

Lorraine Foster, 17 Old Mill Road, Baldwin, L. I. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky, Feb. 12, 1809. His parents were very poor.

He moved with them to Indiana and helped to cut the logs for tneir cabin. The Lincoln family later moved to Illinois. Taking advantage of what opportunity he had, he studied law and was admitted to the Bar. He was called by his neighbors Honest Abe. In 1846 he was elected to Congress.

He was a candidate against Douglas for the United States Senate in 1858, but was defeated. Two years later he was elected President, with Han nibal Hamlin as Vice President. In 1864 he was re-elected, with Andrew Johnson as Vice President. He was assassinated April 14, lues. Joseph Paslawski.

291 21st Brooklyn. ST. VALENTINE'S DAY St. Valentine was a bishoo of Rome during the third century. He was of most amiable nature and possessed remarkable gifts of eloquence, and was so very successful in converting the pagan Romans to Christianity that he incurred the displeasure of the Emperor and was mar tyred by his order Feb.

14, AX). 270. When the saint came to be placed in the calendar his name was given to the day of his death and this was made a festival to offset that of the Luper- calia, which was a feast held on Feb. 15 in honor of the ereat god Pan. An effort was made to substitute the names of saints for those of girls in the lottery, but naturally without success.

Many other customs of medieval and later times which have be come allied in name to a holy saint of the Church are unquestionably of purely secular, even pagan, origin. Marion Raguseo, 447 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn. An OKI-Fashioned Valentine Drawn by Marv Ltnch, 773 E. SHh St, Brooklyn, Shi js That Pass Through Our Harbor THE MAJESTIC The Majestic has a displacement of 56,000 tons. This is 2.000 tons larger than the Leviathan and nearly as great as that of all the 132 ships that formed the famous Spanish Armada.

Her length is 956 feet and her breadth 100 feet. The depth from boat deck to keel is 140 feet. If she stood on end she would rise 164 leet above the Wool-worth Building and nearly reach the top of Eiffel Tower. Four times around her promenade deck is a mile. Two, New York subway trains coukl pass through each of her three smokestacks, which are 30 feet in diameter.

The rudder of the Majestic weighs 140 tons and is hung on a single pin weighing two tons. There are four huge turbine engines for driving the ship forward and lour reverse turbines. A single turbine weighs 375 tons and the lour driving engines will develop about 100000 horsepower, giving a speed of 26 miles an hour and in an emergency 30 miles. The ship has a beautiful library containing 4 000 volumes. By means of three separate wireless stations on board the ship will be kept in contact with both continents throughout an Atlantic Andersen, 7035 Narrows P-rooklvn THE MAINE The Maine was a second-class twin-screw battleship of the United States Navy.

She was destroyed in the harbor of Havana on the evening of Feb. 15, 1898. The Maine was of 6.648 tons displacement. Her length was 318 feet, breadth 57 feet; main battery four 10-inch and six 6-inch breechloading rifles: secondary battery, seven 6-pounders, eight 1-pounders, rapid-fire guns; crew, 34 officers and 370 men; cost, $2,500,000. In 1910 Congress provided for raising the wreck.

Charles Wagner, 8821 212th Place. Queens Village, LI. Twenty-five credits will be awarded all published stories of "Ships That Pass Through Our Harbor." Valentine Greeting Drawn by Ethel Thiele OR WHAT HAVE YOU? Free ft Boys and Girls ulur Science. Write to Ray nor Wade 255 Pearl Brooklyn. EXCHANGE, 25 ntms or two books lor "Book on KiinueUe and Things," or what else have you? Write Maris B.

Formica, 1211 Church Ave Brooklyn. WANT a tvi writer in good condition. Will exchange a two-wheel bicycle for it. TeleiMioue or writ Robert Good. 7422 Jamaica Woodhavwn.

M. MicLuan 2-440. THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN Abe Lincoln was born Feb. 12, 1809, In a log cabin in the back woods of Kentucky. He got his education from books he bor rowed from neighbors.

His mother taught him how to read and write. The schools were many miles from Abe Lincoln's home. The winters were very cold and the snow was deep. In later years, when he was about 31 years old, he worked in tore. While he worked there he was honest and faithful.

In 1861 he became the sixteenth Presi dent of the United States. His term was from 1861 to 1865. He died in 1865. at the hands of an assassin. Miriam Leveen, 4021 Avenue Brooklyn.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN Abraham Lincoln was bom in Kentucky, Feb. 12, 1809, in a log cabin. Lincoln's family did not remain long at his birthplace. They moved to Indiana and another cabin was built. This cabin was very poor.

It had an opening for a door, the bare ground was the floor, the roof was apt to leak when it rained, rude bunks served as beds. Lincoln had a sister named Nancy. She was two years older than Abraham. A year after the family had moved to Indiana Lincoln's mother died. Lincoln once said, "All that I am or ever expected to be I owe to my mother." When Lincoln was 8 years old the family moved to Illinois.

This life fas not better than In Indiana. Lincoln's father was a carpenter by trade, but he was not successful. He tried farming, but he failed. Lincoln had to go to work at an early age to help support his family. He had various jobs, such as farming and rail-splitting.

Rail-splitting was the hardest kind of work and for it there was very little pay. During the Civil War Lincoln W8 President. He died in 1865 at the age of 56. Anna Smith, 737 Washington Ave, Brooklyn. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, was born in Harding County, Kentucky.

He served an officer of volunteers in the Black Hawk Indian War. He also served in the Illinois Legislature (1834-1841). Lincoln practiced law at Springfield and in 1846 was elected to the House of Representatives and served one term. In 1858 he debated slavery with Stephen A. Douglas.

He was elected President of the United States in 1860 and was re-elected in 1864. President Lincoln was shot Friday, April 14, 1865, at Ford's Theater, Washington, by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, and died the next day. He was buried at Springfield, IB. Marie Gerard, 17 Middagh BrooMyn. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky, Feb.

12, 1809, on a large frontier. His home was a log cabin with a dirt floor. When Lincoln was a boy he went to a school about five miles away from his home. He wat taught reading, writing and arithmetic. Lincoln liked to read.

He read the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress." "Aesop's Fables," "The Arabian Nljrhts" and the Life of Washington. Wnen Lincoln was a small boy his family moved to Indiana, where his mother died. I Drawn by Gladys Mac Garden Club Notes For the past few weeks I have been noticing my rosebushes. They are undergoing a change. Have you looked at the rose bushes in your garden? If you do, you will see that the bushes are taking on a live green color, and that means that the sap is beginning to run up into the bush.

Very soon tight, tiny leal-buds will make their appearance. Some people will say, "Why are you looking for leaf-buds in the middle of Winter?" The Girl Scouts have a test called the "Observers Test," and when they pass it they receive the Observer's Badge. Observers keep their eyes open and see what is going on about them, and that is what all of us should do. Some children came into the office one day in great excitement. They had just come back from their vacation.

I asked them where they had been, and they said, "To the country." They did not know the name of the town they had visited, or the nearest large town. They only knew that they had traveled by auto into "the country." Observe your shrubs and bushes during the next few weeks. You will see the hard buds of the Forsythia open into yellow loveliness and the leaf-buds on the rosebushes spread into feathery leaves. Wi.en these buds start to unfurl the insect pests get busy and try to chew up the tender leaves, but during the winter you have been feeding a flock of sparrows, and they will attack the insects and rid your bushes, so that the leaves and buds will have a chance to open. In the meantime, do not forget the birds.

They still need food, and it is hard for them to find it. While they are feeding keep a watch for stray cats, as cats are the enemies of birds. AUNT JEAN. A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU, LEWIS Dear Aunt Jean I like your clubs. I had a happy Christmas and I send you greetings for the new year.

From Lewis Strong, 1019 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn. Leod, Huntington, L. I. MAN'S FRIEND Zip was a shepherd dog which was brought to a sudden end by faithfulness. One day, while guarding the sheep in the hills, he heard a voice.

As no one except his master came to this forsaken spot, he was surprised. He knew his master's voice well enough to know this was a stranger. His instinct warned him that this was no friend. His master, at the other end of the immense flock, knew no danger. Zip was responsible for the fiock and his master's life.

He jumped and was running toward the spot where he caught the glimpse of a shadow. A short, stubby man, with a short-grown beard, was there holding a gun in his hand. The gun went up. There was a shot. It echoed and re-echoed throughout the valley.

He heard his master's footsteps. Then appeared the elderly man with a smooth-shaved face. The stranger, in a deep, guttural voice said, "Hands up!" Zip's master struck at him and he pushed him back with a shove. Then, lifting his pistol, he aimed at him. The dog jumped at almost the same moment the bullet spoke, but he was an instant quicker.

He had taken the bullet in the heart and died with one painful look at his master. The sound of the shots had been heard by other shepherds and they appeared with clubs. The stranger was now bound and taken to the village lockup. The dog was given a burial and over his grave his master carved in a piece of wood. "Greater love hath no man than this." Gertrude Solomon, 322 Milford Brooklyn.

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