“Please give me some information, if you can, of Frank Pearson of the U. S. Str. _Mackinaw_, North Atlantic Squadron. He was from New York State. I have not heard from him since the last of March. They were then on the Appomattox River and I suppose he fell when Petersburg was captured. I wrote to him the first of April, and not getting any word from him I wrote to his Captain but never heard from him. I had given up all hopes of ever hearing what has happened my _best friend_. When I saw your name, that you were trying to find our lost friends, I took courage, but whether I will have any better luck to hear just a word about _Poor Frank_. Three years and a half on the _Blockade_. Oh! how fast the time was passing; only six months from April until he would have been once more free. I would have willingly died for him, but God has ordered it otherwise and I am not the only one that is mourning for a _Dear Friend_. “If you can find anything about him please let me know as soon as you can conveniently. My prayers for you. Oh! how lonely! how sad I feel all alone in this cold world. ‘Would that I were resting too!’ “Pardon me and excuse the writing. My eyes are dim. Please answer soon. I am “Your friend, (Signed) “MATTIE C. BEATTY, “Coal Bluff, Washington County, Penna.” LXXXVIII Clara Barton is Clara Barton. DR. SAMUEL WOODWARD. Clara Barton went to Russia, in 1892, to carry food to the famine sufferers there;—the most widely known American of today. _Central Christian Advocate._ The total value of contributions from America to Russia in 1892 was estimated at about $800,000. Through all sources, here and in Europe, upwards of 35,000 people were saved from starvation. PERCY H. EPLER, Author. Clara Barton gave to the world a greater influence than Catherine of Russia with her millions of subjects—her name will be remembered when that of Catherine shall have been forgotten. Parsons (Kan.) _Sunday_. The sign of the Red Cross, in crimson red, had come nearer its true significance under Clara Barton’s direction than it ever did before, whether by Constantine, named, or borne by crusader bands in assaults upon the Crescent. Worcester (Mass.) _Telegram_. When stricken Armenia called for help in 1896, it was Clara Barton who led the relief corps of salvation and sustenance. Grand Rapids (Mich.) _Herald_. Resolved, That we regard Miss Barton the highest representative and purest embodiment of the Christian humanitarian spirit in America. The Church of Martyrs (Armenian Congregational Church). Worcester, Mass.