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Show - 1'i - - .iiv.-;.- .. w OMAN'S VA 77 ,, hmuh A i V HV,,,,,,, ,,, 7 ,,, rrr f(l w,r thc )loutr t m ivntnry. dev. .tin- - all. the bc-- t wars of lu lile uurk of philantbiupv. Mi- tu-tlu- CONTENTS. - I'.ar--pen- i.ilu ti n I -rtunded am! the 'Red Cot-- , . - nnie Well !iet Society .n for tin- l Ki ('.uiiiMM - ; S- vie! . -- The Titanic : i i nji'ru iu C' -- I ur Temple of the ini: i., n I - !i!j.p., i Tratl . Marv i . . j vi-ito- Md.'iiuc V. : i -- A. Ayall.a - Report:-St. . )rama Remembrance ,:iti u'A' Kili.f V of 0 1; Mr-- 1 I.ibertx Stake Joseph Stake i jell's Gate r- -- 63 6.? v -- 04- - medal- - t"lari--- a and decorations. Harlowe Hart on ).ford. Mass., - nil t. 'hri-tm;- born near day. "1SJ1. ehool in her wa- - j- b'or several vear.s taught Innative village, and later helped organize tlie ; d I'm r "Come Unto The oiic public school svstem in New er-- e b open"' ami Vc Shall Find ing a free school, beginning with six pupils K. U Shipj. C 5'J Marv A. Freeze ill a dilapidated old hou-- e and having at the ear'- - end (M) pupils in a fine brick building erected for her. She accepted a position. in the Patent office at Washington in 1S5. ler where her efficiency was most marked. "COME UNTO THE HOUSE OF THE real fife work, however, found it- - beginning LORD AND YE SHALL FIND REST." when tlie war broke out between the X'ortli and the 'South. It was then that her attenI kiK-a home on Zion's Hill Far prcatcr than nil earthly f?mne' tion was called to the lack of provision for Ft?, name? ("k "A Temple of our care of wounded soldiers on the .bataking In majesty it stands alone. ttlefield and for bringing to the men comfort and delicacies from home and friends. The Its holy walls are built of stone; of this part of her career forcibly It rests on dedicated ground: s' An anirel -- how her skill in leadership and organizadome, guards' Heard in its halls arc sacred sound tion a- - well a her courage, generosity and tenderness. At the close of the war she There trains of tuneful praise are luard was appointed by President Lincoln to head Of Saints who yorship there their God VV. ttraise His name with thankful heart a commission to trace missing soldiers. After Fer wonders marvellously wrought. this sad and laborious task Miss P.arton was much broken down in health and she took h - a home where love and light, a vacation to Europe. YYhik- on this vacaWhere hope and joy and peace abound: tion and during her sojourn in (leneva she One place on earth where hallowed Faitli was invited to attend the meeting of public A;! rest from weary toil are found. utilities which, as those familiar with Red Prew ired for Jesus is this place Cross work already know, had established W! e;i He in glory shall appear, an international relief work through the efWin we .shall- meet .Him f?:e to face ' And listen forts. of Henri Dunant, whose feelings oyer to His words so dear. the lack of care of wounded soldiers at the El ernity! Thou glorious word! .'battle of Solferino had been so wrought upon, Oh. u.mmo fn rnmnrehcnd : that he had determined to bring about a ' Ft rnal union will he ours neutral condition for the digressed in times I' we obey our Lord's command. Emilic Marscr. of war. This resulted in the formation of the Red Cross Society at Geneva in 1S6 ; but at that time "only ten governments had the society. In 1869 Miss Barton atjoined CLARA BARTON AND THE RED CROSS tended the meeting of this society in Berne the broadness ami scope Clara Barton, thc brave; noble, heroic and fjuicklv realized of the work. While still in Europe" the Clara Barton, is dead, died of .pneumonia, Franco-Prussia- n war broke out. and at the home at the ripe her at age of ninety years, of Dr. Appia and others of the Red request I" Cjlen Echo. 12. ; Maryland, April she went to thejront and There would hardly seem to be adequnte she had done during the Civil, words to speak of the great Avrk of this; served as War, only this time under more system and wonderful woman, for her name is a syn-nvAfter the war arid during the organization. Like for all that is most worthy. followed. Commune at Paris-rtiii- ch terrible was life her oiiic other heroines of history Barton distributed relief to the people sacrificed to a cause. She "denicl bersclf, Clara of Paris, some of her best work being pert' and wife the of comforts and great joys formed during thc seige of that city. J)".me-makin order to use;.alL her talents After this all Europe sang her praises. called been has she now humanity: anjl 'Grand. Duchess of Baden made Miss t'Mlie jGreaf evond. having lived nearly a The ::!'! N'ew N'..t- i- . ZlK . . 1 ! 1 t i - d. 64 -- .he I Ki-t- I " hi-to- rv its--loft- , -- i- - " rh.-i- v - Cross-committe- m " . er N0. 8 e Bait.on chief assistant ifi the preparation of r t - otiietlu the evening .if her at her beautiful home in Marlaud. with mementmv ni her eperieiice " in war and disasters and main rare and "s: precioti gift- - fmm frienjU and grateful Her hme people whom -- he had "men lnmh'id- u.'h a nrt tt lirine i 60 It lllH'K lllvt 1:1 vr.' t 1, s(il!dll w If NI . . . i i f u n!eriui little woman and Imw iu r their To ;il sbe extended a cordial uel- come, and delighted her by relating ome o her experiences and bowing to 6.? some ot the more favored one- - her numi'r-- i M !a- ( H(lh tuitnhf Nation, , SALT LAKH CITY, IJTAH. APRIL, I' V.,; (hl, the imlharv hospital-- . Tlu- Emperor of ( "km .many presented her with the Cro-- s ,,f Merit. The Grand Duke of Baden gave her a Red Cross brooch, the Gold Cros (J Remembrance and the colors (.f Baden. When Clara Barton returned to her own countrv 'her first move was to try "to persuade the nited States to sign the treaty of Geneva. hi- treaty guaranteed protection and exemption from capture to those who go on the battlefield to care for the sick and wounded. !t made neutral all sick or disabled soldiers, all persons as nurses or attendants all supplies of medicine or food for their use: all field and military hospitals w ith their equipments, all gifts from neutral nations for the use of the sick and wounded of anv armv. She waited nine weary years for this, gen-- ' of nil rally conceded to be tlu" nation-- , to accent this treat but finalK . t irgely through the efforts of C lames (I. Blaine, success came- - President Garhcld favored it but had not signed the 'reaty at the time of bis assassination, and shortly after it was signed bv President - -- I 1 ino-rliber- al : ! -- rthur. " - In the meantime, however, a few men and women had formed an American Xational Committee of the Red Cross which was reorganized under President Garfudd'. he appointing Miss Barton president : and at her the work of the society was . -- uggcstion broadened to include in addition to work on the battlefield, the relief of suffering in times of all national calamities. Her work now grew rapidly. The American society was founded in 18S1 'and the same year the great forest fires broke out in Michigan: then followed in succession the Mississippi floods and cyclone, the famine of Texas, the Charleston earthquake, the Illinois cyclone in 1888, thc epidemic of yellow fever in Florida.' the awful Jownstown disaster in 1889. the Russian famine, the cyclone in Iowa, thc tidal wave that swept the South Carolina Tslands. She carried relief to stricken Armenia, and later was found waiting on and helping the .Cuban reconcentrados. Even at her advanced age, when the Spanish American war frokcout it was Clara Barton who headed the Red Cross nurses on the "Cuban battlefields and afterwards was seen among tlie, distressed' in ocean-swe'Galveston. She resigned from active work-i'the Red Cross in 1904 but. the soldiers pt ' . n and the people of this country will always associate her with that great work and hold her name in the. greatest reverence. In 1905 she organized The Xational First Aid Association ; tin's is intended to to daily life. ; reach all accidents-inciden- t Miss Barton was always an active suffragist: and an intimate friend of Jliss interand her associates. It is rather her esting to note the comments made on life in this regard by some of the. leading For instance, the "Detroit ewspapers. Journal asks: 'AYiU the" life of anv future woman, with all. the franchises and liberties work-likwhich the future grants; accomplish a that done by this woman of the past An-tho- . nv e -n. |