The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-03

take his bride after the wedding jour
ney. She is still on the sunny side of
middle age-a woman of rare personal
and mental charm, and a great favor
lite in Washington society as when she
queened it here, belle in her "teens"
in the sos. She has two haif-grown
sons by her first marriage, who are
now at school in Europe, under the
personal care of their aunt the famous
beauty who was formerly Matte
Mitchell. now the Countess de Roche
foucauli.
There is no woman in the world IN
whose movements the country is more
genuinely interested than Miss Clara
Barton, founder of the Red Cross So
ciety in America; and none SO forcibly
illustrates the fact that age is not to
be gagged by the number of years,
more or less, one has lived upon earth.
Though past the Scriptural limit of
three score years and ten, THE Angel
of the Battlefield" is to all intents and
purposes a woman In her prime, in
perfect health and contentment with
mental vigor strengthened by the ex-
periences of a long and active life. AS
everybody knows, she has large and
comfortable home in the suburbs of
Washington, which is also the ever
ready home of any unfortunate who
needs 1t. Early in June Miss Barton
went to Russia to attend the inter
national convention Of the Red Cross
at St Petersburg, where she was the
guest of the Gear and Czarina, whose
pleasant acquaintance she made on
previous visits to their capital. Rus
STA has reason for gratitude to the Red
Gross for benefits received during her
terrible famine OF few years ago,
when under Miss Barton's direction,
shiploads OF grain and other neces-
saries were sent to the relief of the
sufferers and personally distributed by
her. That gratitude is not always "a
lively sense of benefits to come" was
shown in the extraordinary honors
paid to Miss Barton and her party, the
decoration of the whole city, and the
splendid reception in the palace. Miss
Barton Is now touring Europe, revisit
ing old scenes and old friends. In a
personal letter to the undersigned,
dated at Geneva, July 18th, Miss Bar
ton writes: II have been travelling
quite alone for nearly a month. Have
visited the dear Grand Duchess of
Baden land seen all there is left of the
old court Of '71-'72> 1 have called,
visited, been tead and dined and re-
ceptioned, and spent a fortnight with
Princess Salm-Salm, a beautiful visit,
and reviver of old times and memories
I attended the closing of the Badest
Parliament-(very fine)-and heard the
Grand Duke read his master
ly address, and spent the
evening with them afterwards.
Yesterday looked down upon Lake
Leman and Veray--Mentreux and Lou
saune inn all their loneliness. The
still, bue waters, the miles of grapes so
fresh and green, the mountain sides
slashed with snow lying in the purple
haze beyond; the quiet little villagts
and peasant hofnes-one felt in looking
at It that there would never be need of
change from scene like this and that
nature could never produce anything
more beautiful and picturesque But
the winter will come-the damp, the
chill the dull days. The mountains will
be all in white by and by, and the
winds will drawn down through the
valleys of the Rhone, till every inch
of marrow feels frozen in ones bones.
was glad that / knew all this. and
had lived 1t. and so could restrain the
impulse to remain always among pres
sent loneliness. The other side is, we'll
LEST we forget. lest we forget"
am having a fine old-fashioned travel.
all by my lonesome;' no one to
trouble me, or to be troubled by me.
My conference work is finished and
sent on. l haven't been III a moment;
have maze no mlstakeS-that know
of: and have neither lost nor left any
thing by the way side; and since the
warm weather came on. so that | no
longer needed fires and could write a
letter without my gloves on, there has
been absolutely nothing ] could wish
20 change. or course ] shall be wend-
ing my way homeward sometime. /
have some days yet for old Strasburg
and few for Paris"
Nobody has ever left the diplomatic
circle who was 20 greatly missed as