Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-04-08

gave way. II would almost seem rs though
she had been diylnely led into philanthropiC
work, for tho first stop was taken without
reconciliation. Her brother had been made
a prisoner by Gen. Buffers troops, and she
resolved to try to secure his release by up.
peallng to Butler. Before starting for the
front, she announced In Massachusetts
newspaper that she would receive stores and
money for the wounded soldiers, and would
distribute them personally. There WINS au
overwhelming response, and she found her
self with work on hand onerous beyond all
expectation. Until the war closed, She never
left the field, but continued nursing the sick
and relieving the suffering, besides distribut-
ing large quantities OF supplies that came to
her from many parts Of tho Union. She
worked quito alone and independent Of any
existing organization, and when hostilities
ended, Clara Barton was known throughout
the world as the soldiers friend.
Peace brought no cessation to Miss Bar
toms labors. During the next fifteen years,
she did effective work on all the great battle
fields OF Europe. And the httlo Yankee
schoolma'am conquered the hearts Of other
nations, Just as she lad done at home,
Kings, queens, emperors and potentates We'd
with each other in their desire to do her
honor, and she was literally loaded with bril-
liant decorations, crosses and rare jewels
Just thirteen years ago, the American Ma
tional Red Cross Society was founded, and
Miss Barton was chosen as president Under
her leadership it has grown to be the great
est phanthropic organization ever known In
this country, and the splendid work It has
accomplished during periods Of great nation
al suffering and disaster, would alone make
a thrilling and yoluminous history. In the
Mississippi foods in 1889, the Ohio floods
the following year, tho Louisiana cyclone, the
Texas drought-ianine. the Charleston earth
quake, the Johnstown flood, the Russian
famine. and. latest Of all, the Sea Island hur-
rieaue, Clara Barton and the Red Cross work
ers have stood between many thousands Of
sufferers and death by starvation, injuries or
disease.
During the whole Of the present winter
Miss Barton has Ind her headquarters lin
the aeld,' at Beaufort S. c., whore the Red
Cross established itself for work among the
Sea Island population. There, in lonely
and wretehed section OF desolate country,
she undertook tho hereulean task Of relieving
a population OF nearly 10000, scattered over
a district fully 100 miles square, giving the
people cheap but wholesome ations. aud
helping them to rebuild their ruined cabins.
In this latest Held, the Red Cross has ex-
pended between $4,000 and $4,000.
No woman ever lived who knew more Of
the human heart and how to reach It, than
Clara Barton, and none has enjoyed a wider
or more deserved confidence, for everybody
lies her. Her Washington homo Is draped
and fesiooned Ike royal pavilion, with
sliken flags from a score Of different nations.
Even the portleres are nags, and the stair
case is also hung with them. In her pretty
salon. above which Is her private ONCE, 1t Is
nothing unusual 10 lind her receiving as
auests many Of the foremost ladies Of the
nation. wives Of senators and Of members Of
ne cabinet. Mrs. Cleveland. too, pays her
nm occasional visit; and when any great ca
h,mitv or disaster calls ioith me snpits OF
III nj Cross. these elegant society ladies
hover about the Yankee schooinA Aai nph
,ndsrtaka the committee work she OUTLINES
with eager pleasure sAid one 81 N''
dies TO me Tacsntly'
.ssi,e 4 the sweetest, most unselfsh women
{, M world Thousands q people owe
thar uyes tl.-dss - what she did years ago
TN oid soldierr re ard her as an angel, AZ
- II isn't q wonder that her name
aho,,id awaken our enthusiasm. Her hands.
Nan and brain have been busy WIN "orKs
q mercy al Nv BIAscHS ErLIorr,