Lucetta—Fire that’s closest kept burns most of all. _The Two Gentlemen of Verona._ CLARA BARTON’S HEART SECRET—$10,000 IN “GOLD DUST” Clara Barton was very non-communicative as to her personal affairs, confiding in no one her heart’s secrets. But a woman’s curiosity got the best of the closest friend Clara ever had, and on a certain occasion “Sister Harriette” ventured to draw out of her heart what she had long wanted to know: “Clara, have you never had a sweetheart?” “Oh yes!” she replied, “just the same as all other girls.” “But tell me about yours,” Harriette ventured further. “I will, sometime,” Clara said. “Oh, no, tell me now,” Harriette continued. “No, not now—some other time I’ll tell you all about it,” persisted Clara. Then she said: “Oh, well, I’ll tell you I had a dear friend in my younger days, but he went to California in the rush to the gold fields with my brother David, and never came back.” “Did you really love him?” asked Harriette again, trying to draw her out. “Now, don’t ask me anything more, for I am not going to tell you,” replied Clara. “But you said you would and I am really curious,” continued Harriette. Clara hesitated, then said: “I don’t feel like it now, but sometime I’ll tell you the story.” She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i’ the bud, Feed on her damask cheek; she pined in thought; And with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat (like patience on a monument) Smiling at grief. On a certain other occasion it became necessary for her attorneys to know in detail of her finances, and their origin, so they plied her with questions:— [Illustration: THE CLARA BARTON MONUMENT Built at her expense in the cemetery at North Oxford, Massachusetts. In her will Clara Barton left sixteen hundred dollars for the permanent maintenance of the Barton cemetery lot. WILLIAM E. BARTON. No more fitting tribute could be paid by the American people than the raising of a monument that will perpetuate the life work of Clara Barton. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL NELSON A. MILES. Monuments and endowments are the physical testimonials, but they do not express the entire obligation. The life of Clara Barton should be familiarized to every child. Woonsocket (R. I.) _Call._ Congress should pass a Special Act setting aside a plot and defraying the expenses of a suitable monument over the last resting place of the noble woman who has served the nation in peace and in war. Manchester (N. H.) _Mirror_.