is he responsible? Congress? the State Legislatures? the City Aldermen? the Town Clerk? the heads of municipal departments? For what is every voter responsible? every housekeeper? every scholar? School is given us freely by all the people so that we may be active, helpful citizens. The citizen must be able to read, write, earn a living, and understand about our laws and government. Scholars are responsible for being on time every day; for regularity - not missing without an excellent reason; for faithfulness in work. Kipling said 1:

"If you can fill the unrelenting minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it;
And, what is more, - you'll be a man, my son."

Take up New Year's Resolutions: What are the best ones to make?

Study the responsibility of the locomotive engineer on his engine; the captain and officers on a steamer; the doctor and nurse in illness.

Read: "The Wreck of the Republic," in Cabot's Ethics for Children. Houghton Mifflin Co.

Stories from Clara Barton's History of the Red

Cross. American Historical Press.

"The Policeman," by Theodore Roosevelt, from the "Roll of Honor of the New York Police," Century Magazine, October, 1897. (Quoted also in School Speaker and Reader, p. 257, William De Witt Hyde. Ginn & Co.)

We make the rules of our clubs; it is disloyal not to obey them. All the people make the laws of the nation; it is disloyal not to obey them.

! In "If," Rewards and Fairies. Doubleday, Page & Co.

Look up the laws you are likely to break. Teachers can find out about these laws from the town or county clerk, throwing paper and rubbish in the streets; breaking street lamps; ringing fire alarms; stealing apples; breaking windows; playing baseball in public streets; playing craps; marking buildings.

Be a supporter of the government and of American ideals by keeping paper off the streets; not blocking the sidewalk as you come from school; giving up your seat to older people; putting out brush fires and refusing to light any; holding yourself upright in bearing, in honesty, in thought, as well as word; reporting any sign of danger; forming Junior Civic Leagues or Good Government Clubs.

Read the pamphlets of the Forestry Commission in relation to fires. Tell of the Boy Scouts of America. Read: Under the Old Elm, Lowell (extract about Wash

ington). R.L.S. No. Z. Houghton Mifflin Co. Ode to the Duke of Wellington, Tennyson. R.L.S. No. 73. Houghton Mifflin Co.

Scouting for Boys, Baden Powell. Pearson,
London.

THE LITTLE SIX 1

ELLA LYMAN CABOT

Every spring when the snow melts along the banks of our great rivers there is danger of a flood. Thirty years ago the Ohio River overflowed its banks for a thousand miles. Even the city of Cincinnati was like a large stream. Men and women went out in boats and passed food to the hungry people at third story windows. Sometimes

1 Rewritten from a story in the Erie Despatch, March 24, 1884.

great buildings were undermined and small houses went floating down stream. Six children in Waterford, Pennsylvania, heard of the flood. They were not only sorry; they decided to help. They gave an entertainment and raised $51.25, which was sent to Miss Clara Barton, President of the Red Cross Association, to be put where it would do most good.

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Miss Barton was much touched by the children's gift. She wanted to give it to children who had suffered in the flood. One day as she went down the Ohio River she came upon just the family she most wanted to help widow, Mrs. Plew, with six children. They owned their farm on the banks of the river with two horses, three cows, thirty hogs, and some hens, and till the flood came they managed to get on. But the flood swept away their horses, sickness came among the hogs, and one night a great gale blew down their house. They had to live in the corn-crib, with the twenty-five hens clucking about the door. They kept even this place neat and clean. They were poor and in trouble, but they were brave and industrious still. "If we only had a little money we could build a house higher up on the bank," said the mother.

"There are six children," thought kind Miss Barton; "here is the very place to give the money." She told the woman the story of the Waterford children who wanted to help, and offered her their gift that she might rebuild her house. With a voice full of deep feeling the woman answered, "God knows how much it would be to me. Yes, with my good boys I can do it, and do it well."

"And shall you name the house when it is built?" "Oh, yes," she answered quickly, "I shall name it The Little Six.'

When the six contributors heard how their money had been spent they wrote this letter:

DEAR MISS BARTON,

We read your nice letter in the Despatch and we would like very much to see that house called "The Little Six," and we are so glad we little six helped six other little children, and we thank you for going to so much trouble in putting our money just where we would have put it ourselves.

Sometime again when you want money to help you in your good work, call on the "Little Six,"

JOE FARRAR, twelve years old.
FLORENCE HOWE, eleven years old.
MARY BARTON, eleven years old.
REED WHITE, eleven years old.
BERTIE ENSWORTH, ten years old.
LLOYD BARTON, seven years old.

FEBRUARY: GREAT AMERICANS

For the Teacher:

Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us. The Lord hath wrought great glory by them through his great power from the beginning.

Leaders of the people by their counsels and by their knowledge of learning meet for the people: wise and eloquent in their instructions;

Their glory shall not be blotted out.

The people will tell of their wisdom, and the congregation will show forth their praise.

Ecclesiasticus XLIV.

Suggestions for morning talks

Our Great Statesmen:

What qualities does it take to be a great statesman?

Can he be narrow-minded, prejudiced, unfair?

Must he be able to get on with all kinds of people? How do we learn to get on well with people? Washington said: My first wish is to see the whole world at peace and the inhabitants of it as one band of brothers, striving which should contribute most to the happiness of mankind.

See, if you can, the Educational Moving Picture of the Declaration of Independence. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin were great statesmen, for they planned for the good of the whole country. The great statesman cannot be bribed. Tell the story of Washington's rejection of the crown. The great statesman thinks of the future of his country. Benjamin Franklin's gift to Boston. The great statesman loves his whole country. Lincoln's fairness to the South. The great statesman is generous. John Hay's attitude in giving indemnity to China. The great statesman works for good will. Stories of William Penn, Hugo Grotius, Henry of Navarre. (See The Friendship of Nations, pp. 34-38, Lucile Gulliver. Ginn & Co.) The great statesman forgives his enemies. Tell of the death of McKinley.

Read: "Ezekiel and Daniel," in An American Book of Golden Deeds, James Baldwin. American Book Co.

"John Quincy Adams and the Right to Petition," Henry Cabot Lodge, in Hero Tales from American History. Century Co.