WASHINGTON TIMES SUNDAY JULY 31 1904

CLARA BARTON TELLS HER OWN STORY Of RED CROSS TRIUMPHS

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ten an Intimate narrative of thegcod the society has done the dif-

ficulties it has surmounted and thesuffering and want It has relieved-

In the past score of years Writton without effort at display It is asimple find charming literary effortTh D Appleton Co haveproduced the book In attractive form

Miss says In the foreword to

her story that she has written it to

tell just what the Red Cross has donewithout special regard to motive or in

spiration or detailed plan It Is themannor in which she has carried outthis purposo that gives book itscharm

During the twenty and more in

which the society has hold out a help-

ing lumd to the distressed on earthMist Barton hns como In contact withmany great men the monarchs andrulers of mnny countries Her storiesof them reveal those mans gentler at-

tributes Hero are some of them stor

ies of the groat and of the weak and

of ChildrenRescued Family-

We left at one point on the Ohio

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Little SIxfinight be given in their own

little letterWATERFORD Pa March 24 1SS4

Dear Miss BartonWe read nice letter In the

and we would like very much to

again when wanthelp you In your good workWtU old

FLORENCE 11 years oldMARY 11 years

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These children had given a public en

tertainment for the benefit of the flood

sufferers They themselves suggested-

It planned and carried It out and raised5121 which they sent to the editor of

the Erie Dispatch asking him to send

It where It would do the most good

The Dispatch forwarded It to thepresident Cthfe Red Cross with an ac-

count of the entertainment given by

The Little SixThe entire matter was too beautiful

and withal unique to meet only a common fate in its results I could not

moment think to mingle the gift ofthe little dramatists with the commonfund for general distribution und soughtthrough all these weeks for a fittingdisposition to make of it where It wouldnil go In some special manner to relieve

specialnecessity I wanted It tobenefit some children who had wopton the banks of the river which In Itsmadness had devoured their nome

Victims of the Flood

As we noared that pioturesqu spot on

the Illinois side of the Ohio known asCavein Rock we were hailed by a

woman and her young daughter Tho

boat to and the landing

and thcyjoame on board R tall thin

worn wjJttjah in tattered clothes anda good Inexpressibly sad face

who wished tell us that apackage which wo had loft for her atthe town on our way down had never

reached her She was ahusbanii a good river pilot

had died from overwork on a hard tripto Now Orleans In the floods of the Mis

sissippi two years before leaving herwith six children dependent upon herthe eldest a lad in his teens theyoungest a little baby girl They owned

their h me just on the brink of thoriver JL little farm of two or threeacres two horses three cows thirtyhogs and a half hundred fowls and inspite of the bereavement they had goneon bravely winning the esteem andcommendation of all who knew themfor thrift and honest endeavor Lastyear the floods came heavily upon themdriving them from their home and thetwo horses were lost Next the choleracame among the hogs and all but threedied Still they worked on and holdthe home This spring came the thirdflood The water climbed up the bankcrept in at the door and filled thelower story of the house They hadnowhere to remove their householdgoods and stored them In the garretcarefully packed and went out to finda shelter In an old log house nearbyused corn crib Day by day theywatched the house hailed passing boats

news of the rise and fall of thewater above always trusting the housewould stand and it would the mother said tor It was a good stronghouse but for the storm The windscame and the terrible Pale that sweptthe valley like a tornado with the waterat Its height leveling whole towns de-

scended and beat upon that house andIt fell In the morning there was nohouse there and the waves in theirfury rushed madly on Thon these litUe children stood and wept oTa the

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banks of the river and the desolationand tear In the mothers heartnone but herself and her God can know

Living in CribThey lived on In the crib It

was from it they came to us aswe passed today Something had beentold us of them on our downward tripand a package had been left them atCaveIn Rock which they had not re-

ceived We went over shoetops In mudto their rude home to find it one roomof logs an old stone chimney with acheerful fire of driftwood and a cleanhearth two wrecks of beds a tableand two chairs which some kind neighbor had loaned

Our thoughtful field agent Dr Hubbell was the first to speak

Hero are six children he said withan Inquiring glance at meNo response was needed The thing

of The Little Six ofand asked her if that money withenough more to make up 100 would

her to get up her house It washer turn to be speechless At lengthwith a struggling choking vclce shomanaged to say God knows how muchIt would be to me Yes with my goodboys I can do It and do It well

We put In her hands a check for thissum and directed from the boat cleanboxes of clothing and bedding to helprestore the household when the houseshould have been completed

Before we left her wo If shewould name her house Itbe done She thought a second aridcaught the Idea

Yes she replied quickly with areally winsome smile on that andweary face yes I shall name it TheLittle Six

Man of the HourIn FarOff Turkey

During the Red Cross expedition tomitigate the horrors of the Armenian in1S94 Miss Barton met at Constantinople-one of Turkeys notable men She describes her Interview thus

The first step was to procure an Introduction to the Turkish governmentwhich had In one sense refused to seeme Accompanied by the American minister Hon A W Terrell and his pre-mier Interpreter one of themost experienced diplomatic officers inConstantinople I called by appointment-on Tewflk Pasha the Turkish ministerof foreign affairs or minister of stateTo those conversant with the personagesconnected with Turkish affairs I neednot say that Tewflk Pasha Is probablythe foremost man of the governmenta manly man with a kind fine face

genial polished manners Educa-te abroad with advanced views on genjeral subjects he Impresses one as aman who would sanction no wrong itwas In his power to avert

Mr Terrells introduction was mostappropriate and well expressed bearing with strong emphasis upon the suffering condition of the people of the in-

terior In consequence of the massacresthe great sympathy of the people ofAmerica and giving assurance that ourobjects were purely humanitarian hav-ing neither political racial nor religious significance

The Pasha listened most attentivelyto Mr Terrell thanked him and saidthat this was well understood that theyknew the Red Cross and Its presidentTurning to me he repeated We knowyou Miss Barton have long known youand your work We would like to hearyour plans for relief and what you desire

Pasha Was Enthused-I proceeded to state our plans for re

lief which if not carried out at thistime the suffering in Armenia unlesswe bad been misinformed would shockthe entire civilized world Nono of usknew from personal observation as yetthe full need of assistance but had reason to believe It very great If myagents were permitted to go such needas they found they would be prompt torelieve On the other hand If they didnot find the need existing there nonewould leave the field so gladly as theyThere would be no respecting of persons humanity alone would be theirguide We have I added broughtonly ourselves no correspondent has accompanied us and we shall have noneand shall not go home to write a bookon Turkey We are not here for thatNothing shall be done In any concealedmanner All dispatches which we sendwill go openly through your own telegraph and I should be glad if all thatwe shall write could be seen by yourgovernment I cannot of course saywhat Its character will be but canvouch for Its truth fairness and in

and for the conduct of everyleading man who shall be sent I shallnever counsel or permit a sly or underhand action with your government andyou will pardon ee Pasha if I say Ishall expect the came treatment In return such as I give I shall expect toreceive

Almost without a breath he re-plied And you shall have ItWe honor your position and yourwishes shall be respected Such aid andprotection as we are able we shall randerI then asked If It were necessary forme to see othor ofilolals No he

I speak for my government andwith cordial good wishes our interviewclosed

I never spoke personally with this gentleman again all further business beingofficially transacted through the officersof our legation Yet I can truly suy asI have said of my first meeting with ourmatchless band of missionary workersthat here commenced an acquaintancewhich proved invaluable and hero weregiven pledges of mutual faith of whichnot a word was ever broken on eitheraide

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MISS CLARA BARTON

With Whose Name the Work of the Red Cross of America Will Always Be Associated A Woman Who Has Achiev-

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The Turkish government when once Itcame to understand American methodsand enthusiasm was forgiving and kindto us No obstruction was ever placedIn our way

Suffered MuchComplained Little

Of the hospital work at Slboney thedescription Is written by Miss JanetJennings a volunteer nurse In the RedCross party Ono story she tolls is orbravery and suffering It Is this

The strain had been the greater be-

cause there were no facilities forlike a regular meal short of the

ship reached by a long hard tramp inthe sand then a row over the tossingwaves But nobody thought of mealsThe one thing was to feed and nurse the00 wounded and sick man Human en

durance ho ever has Its limit and unless the SIsers could get a little restthey would give out I went on duty fortwentyfour hours at night with theassistance of one man taking care offorty patients fever measles and dys-

entery cases and half a dozen badlywounded men Among the latter wasCaptain Mills of the First Cavalry andWilliam Clark a colored private in theTwentyfifth Infantry regulars Theywere brought over from the hospitaltents and placed on cots on the littleporch where there was just room topass between the cots

Their wounds were very similar Inthe head and of such a character as torequlro cool applications to the eyesconstantly Ice was scarce and worthits weight In gold for the lives of thesemen as well as others depended chieflyon cool applications to the eyos withas uniform temperature as possible Wehad one small piece of Ice carefullywrapped In a blanket There never wasa small piece of Ice that went so far IfI were to tell the truth about It nobodywould believe me

Never In my whole life I think have-I wished for anything so much as Iwished for plenty of ice that night Itwas applied by chipping in small bitslaid In thin dry cotton ninth foldedover in just the right slzo and flat toplace across tho eyes and foreheadenough of It to be cold but not heavyon the wounds

Wild Craving for IceThe ears of the sick are strangely

acute Whenever the sick men hoard thesound of chipping Ice they begged for Icewater even the smallest bit of Ice Ina cup of water was begged with aneagerness that was pitiful I felt consciencesmitten But It was a question of saving the eyes of the woundedmen and there was no other way Tomake the Ice last till morning I stealth-ily chipped It off so the sick men wouldnot hear the sound

At midnight a surgeon came overfrom his tent ward with a little piece ofIce not larger than his hand I do notknow his name but it does not matter It Is Inscribed above This Is all wecan spare he said Take it Youmust keep those wounds cool at allhazards I have another case very like

man in the head Iwant to bring him ovor here where hewill be sure of exactly the same nurs-Ing Ills life depends on the care hogets In the next twentyfour hoursHave you a vacant cot

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half hour the surgeon returned to sayIt was Impossible to get a cot anywhere and the wounded man must beleft where he was In the tent at leastuntil morning

And gp It went on through the longpatient suffering of the sick

men the heroism of the wounded allfearing to give any trouble desiring notto do so and grateful for the smallestattention

i Two Brave SufferersThe courage that faces death x n the

battlefield or calmly awaits It in the hospital is not a courage of race or colorTwo of the bravest I ever saw werehere almost side by side on the littleporch Captain Mills and Private Clark

one white the other black They werewounded almost at the same time andIn the same way The patient sufferingand heroism of the black soldier wasfully equal to that of the AngloSaxon-It was quite the same the gentlenessand appreciation They were a studythese men so widely apart In life buthere strangely close and alike on thecommon ground of duty and sacrificeThey received precisely the same careeach ted like a child for with their ban-daged eyes they as helpless as

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izing one anothers peculiarities saysChambers Journal of London Es-

pecially do they dorlve entertainmentby poking fun at the alleged charac-teristics of rival cities

As the English and German stand for

so do the Bostonian and the

The claim of Boston to be theand Intellectual center of the UnitedStates furnishes the scribes of all therest of the country with opportunities-of sarcasm

A Learned CitizenThe Bostonian is represented as prone

even from earliest days to the use cflearned language on all occasions Hereis the Boston child

Little Miss MulletSat on a turret

Eating baked beans and brown breadThere came a great spiderAnd sat down beside her

What a tine arglopo she saidIt is a Boston clergyman who is re

ported to have declared that Lots wifewas transformed Into a monolith of chloride of sodium

Not long ago in a discussion whetherexpectorate or spit should bo used

in the health notices in the New Yorkstreet cars It was mentioned that Theo-dore Roosevelt when police commissioner had preferred the simpler wordThereupon a Chicago paper promptlyexpressed its regret as this revelationwould assuredly lose for him the Bostonvote

The following cuttings from the outside press further illustrate this conception of the scholarly atmosphere ofBoston

Here cried an Irate passengeryouve took us past Tremont Street

Pardon me replied the Bostonstreet car conductor you mean takennot Now then sir move withmore expedition please

The prisoner a faded buttered speci-men of mankind on whoso haggard facedeeply lined with the marks of dissipation still lingered faint reminders

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blind men When the Icepads were renewed on Captain Mills eyes the samechange was made on Private Clarkseyes There was no difference in theirbeds or food Neither uttered a word ofqomplalnt The nearest to a regret expressed by Captain Mills was a heavysigh followed by the words Oh wewere not ready Our army was not pre-pared

Of himself he talked cheerfullystrong and hopeful I think I shall gohomo with the sight of one eye hesaid That was all

In the early part of the night he wasrestless his brain was active cool andbrave as he might be The moonlightwas very bright a flood of silver seenonly In the tropics Hoping to diverthim I said The moonlight is too brightcaptain I will put up paper screenso you can go to sleep

He realized at once the absurdity andthe ludicrous side and with an amusedsmile replied But you know I cant seethe moonlight

I said It was time to get more ice forhis head and half stumbled across thepprch blinded by tears When toldwho his nearest neighbor was CaptainMills expressed a great sympathy forPrivate Clark and paid a high tribute

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of better days long past stood dejected-ly before the judge

Where are you from From Bost ln Indeed said the Judge Indeedyours is a sad fall And yet you dontseem to thoroughly realize how low youhave sunk The man started as Ifstruck Your honor docs me an injus-tice he said bitterly

The disgrace of arrest for drunkenness the mortification of being throwninto a noisome dungeon the publicityand humiliation of trial in a crowdedand dingy courtroom I can bear but tobe sentenced by a police magistrate whosplits his infinitive that is Indeed thelast blow

In Line With TraditionsSuch literary sensitiveness is of

course quite In keeping with the traditions of a city where it is rumoredeven the beans take a course of BrownIng

But it is not in language and literature alone that the preeminence o

Is unquestioned I am agent sirsays the traveler for the GreatAmerican Universal Encyclopedia ofHistory Biography Art Science andLiterature Dont need it repliesthe business man I married a BostongirlBut

Boston is sometimes able to re-

taliate upon her more aggressive Juniors-A Bostonian so it Is related was ridingwith a Chicago lady on the elevatedrailway In the latter city

It is an enormous city Is It notshe remarked with a proud sigh

Enormous repeated the BostonianThe enormity of It Is not to be esti

mated Another remark hits effectivelyat the ambitions of the nouveau rlche

The European economist comments-a Boston paper who expects to teachChicago to like horse meat has a

task Chicago wants the most expensive or nothing-

A Professors DaughterMore pungent still Is the application

of a story told of the daughter of aprofessor at Cornell University whowas about to move Westward Thenight before they left the little girladded these words to her usual prayer

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Clark talked but little Hewould lie apparently asleep until thepain in his head would become unbearable Then he try to sit up always CAreful to keep the ice pad on hiseyes over the bandage

What can I do for you Clark Iwould ask anxious to relieve his pain

Nothing thank you he would an-swer Its nice and comfortable hereBut Its only the misery in my headthe misery Is awful

Later on as will be remembered MissJennings went North a volunteer nurseon the transport Seneca The brave menwhose lives hung in the balance that

little hope that If life werespared they would ever see asaln re-covered but each with the loss of aneye After a long furlough PrivateClark returned to his regiment Captain Mills now General Mills is thesuperintendent of the West Point

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ere Is a story from the chapter onMiss Bartons experiences In Cuba

More supplies arrived and this timecame large tarpaulins utensilsmore food and more things to make it alittle comfortable We removed our firstkitchens across the road up alongsidethe headquarters tent of Major Wood Incharge of the camp Words cannot dojustice to his kindhearted generosityHe strove In every way to do all thatcould be done and the night before hadgiven us a small tent In which we hadhuddled from the pouring rain for acouple of hours In the middle of thenight the water rushing through like arivulet

The tarpaulins were put over supplies-a new fireplace made near us magnifi-cent In Its dimensions shelter given forboxes and barrels that by this time hadaccumulated about us and there waseven something that looked like a tableon which Mrs Gardner prepared hericacies

Early In the day there came to our im-provised headquarters an officer In khakiuniform showing hard service and abandanna handkerchief hanging fromhis hat to protect the back of his headand neck from the fierce rays of the sun

It was Colonel Roosevelt and we werevery glad to meet the gallant leader ofthe Rough Riders After a few moments conversation he said

Tefidy Wanted Foods

I have some sick men with the regiment who refuse to leave It They needsuch delicacies as you have here which-

I am ready to pay for out of my ownpocket Can I buy them from the RedCross

Not for a million dollars Dr Gardner replied

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Philadelphia has somehow acquiredthe reputation quite unwarranted sofar as a visitor may judge of being theslowest city In America Consequently-the Philadelphian has to endure manygibes at the lack of uptodateness ofhis native place

One would like to know what Benjamin Franklin certainly a man of vigorand enterprise would have thought ofsuch jests as the following at the citywhose fame was so closely associatedwith his own Yes poor fellow he wasonce very prosperous but he failed in

How so Tried to estaoa quick lunch restaurant in Phil

adelphiaAgain I understand that it was pret

ty slow at Mrs De Styles partySlow Why It was as slow as playing

chess on a freight train going throughPhiladelphia on a Sunday

A Ten Million Brood

Regarding mosquito broods and thenumber of specimens thatIn a limited area few persons recognize-

the fact that breading is intensive ratherthan extensive-

It is not that there is a scattering ofwrigglers over a large area There isor the contrary a concentration ofspecimens within a limited space

The best illustration of that was seen

where a small pond with an areaof 1S04 square feet produced in onebrood over ten million six hundredthousand specimens This will seemmost Incredible to those who have neverseen a really wellpopulated mosquitopool but the estimate was carefullymade after hours of work in whichevery part of the pond was sampled andthe larvae in each sample wore counted

There two similar ponds close byand tho combined output was quite subficient to give the place a full supply ifone million mosquitoes are distributedamong one thousand porches each willgot one thousand examples and I read

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And we know they are proud of youcolonel But we cant sell Red Crosssupplies answered DC Gardner

Then how can I get them musthave proper food for my sick hesaidJust ask for them Colonel repliedDr Gardner

Oh he said his face suddenly lighting up with a bright smile then I doask for them

All right colonel what is yourThe list included malted milk

milk oatmeal cornmeal cannedfruits dried fruits rice tea chocolateand even prepared beefsteak and

and other things good for menwho could not eat army rations

Now colonel when will you send forthese supplies asked Dr GardnerThey will be ready any time

Lend me a sack and Ill take themright along he answered with characteristic decision

Mrs Gardner at once looked up a sackand when filled It must have held a goodmany pounds of supplies Beforehad recovered from our surprise the In-

cident was closed by the future President of the United States slinging thebig sack over his shoulders striding offand out of right jungle

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Daybreak brThe silence waA hundred and twenty stevedores linedup on the wharf for work and break-fast The dock had tracks and trucksrunning to Its open warehouses Boxesbarrels and bales pitched out of thatship thrown on to the trucks andwheeled away told of the better daysto come It was something to seelank brawny little army of stevedorestake their first breakfast In line alongside of the ship

Later in the day the flagship broughtAdmiral Sampson and Admiral Schkywho spent several hours with us Theyhad every opportunity to see how ourwork was done and If w3 were equalto unloading our ship When theyabout to leave Admiral Sampson wasasked what orders or directions he ka4for us He replied You need no

from me but if anyoneyou let me know

The amiable pleasantries of these twogallant officers during that visit area pleasure to recall As I was at anopportune moment attempting to express my appreciation and toAdmiral Sampson for the courtesy ofallowing us to precede him into Santi-ago Admiral Schley with that naiveteand apt turn of expression so

of him in a half undertone side re-mark cautioned me wit T onhim too much credit Miss Barton hewas not quite sure how clear the channel might be Remember that wastrial trip

How sadly the recollection of thatpleasant memorable day has since recurred to me brave brothers Inarms and in heart only asoldiers duty each countrys honor first his own last Its glory

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