Mistorical ikighlighis Cimo. Scatt lUaiiM. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Peacetime Hero THE recent petition of the American Ameri-can Humane association to President Pres-ident Roosevelt and Postmaster j General Frank Walker to issue a j special stamp this year in honor of! Henry EJ-crgh has made many Amer- icans aware, for the first time, of the services of one of those "peacetime "peace-time heroes' who are all-too-oftcn unhonored and unsung. For Henry Bergh was the founder of two great agencies for relieving distress the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the New i York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children both of which j were pioneers in their fields, j Bergh was born in New York city I in 182.3, the son of a ship-builder j woo died in 1843, leaving the fortune I which he had made in the service j of the government to his three chil-j chil-j dren. Young Henry Bergh entered , Columbia college but before finish- ing his education there went to Eu- rope where he remained for five I years. j In 1862 President Lincoln and Sec- retary of State Seward appointed him secretary of the legation at St. Petersburg and acting vice-consul. But the severity of the climate I forced him to resign in 1864 and he i spent the next two years traveling on the continent and in the Orient. I The cruel treatment of their live- stock by the peasants of many of the countries which Bergh visited