“God bless the new nation the world is glad to welcome. She is still the ‘Gem of the Ocean.’ My soul craves once more to look upon her beautiful face, and its grateful prayer forever goes up to Him who ruleth and guideth all—that He watch over her, keep her pure and true, and safe-guard forever her motto and watchword, ‘Cuba Libre’!” NOTE.—If Cuba gets free, she must come to the United States, as she is too small to stand alone against the greed of great nations which will try to gobble her up for her riches, in soil and products. (Prophecy in 1874) Clara Barton. LXXIII Upon every line of Clara Barton’s life may be hung a thrilling story of perilous adventure and pathetic moving incidents. “_Clara Barton and Her Work._” Like everything in Corsica, my education was pitiful. NAPOLEON. Greatness is nothing, if it is not lasting. NAPOLEON. Impossible! That word is not in the French dictionary. NAPOLEON. Drama is the tragedy of women. NAPOLEON. I have fought like a lion for the Republic and, by way of recompense, it grants me permission to die of hunger. NAPOLEON. Fortune is a woman. The more she does for us the more we expect. NAPOLEON. Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. SHAKESPEARE. The wicked flee when no man pursueth. PSALMS. The thief doth fear each bush an officer. SHAKESPEARE. Little sea-girt Corsica is weird, wild, soft and bewitching, strange, unique, but she had so much that one wearied of. CLARA BARTON. AT THE BIRTHPLACE OF NAPOLEON—THE CORSICAN BANDIT At Ajaccio, on the Island of Corsica, there is still carefully preserved the house where was born Napoleon, in 1769. The island (a French Colony) is 114 miles long and 52 miles wide, and contains about 300,000 inhabitants; Ajaccio, the capital, about 19,000 inhabitants. Many of the street names, and statues of the city likewise, perpetuate the memory of the great military chieftain, as do other spots of similar historic interest in connection with his boyhood. At Ajaccio, Clara Barton lived for some time. There she not only visited every place of interest but she also studied the character, and military strategy, of that masterful leader of men, as later she studied him in the city made by him “Paris Beautiful.”