LUISE, THE GRAND DUCHESS OF BADEN née Princess of Prussia ] [Illustration: FRIEDERICH, THE GRAND DUKE OF BADEN Duke of Zährengen ] For more than forty years, I have known dear, beloved Miss Clara Barton. Great affection and great admiration and great gratitude united me with her. Her memory I will keep sacred in faithful and thankful remembrance of her whose friendship was in our never altering affection so very precious to me.—LUISE, the Grand Duchess of Baden (in 1912). The Grand Duke, one of the kindest and noblest types of manhood. CLARA BARTON. See pages between 326–7, decorations Nos. 2, 4, 5, 16, 17. The literary exercises were over. The General had stepped down from the platform. There at the foot of the steps the General waited. The audience had remained sitting. In a few moments Clara Barton and her chivalric old Commander were in private conversation. As that great audience, composed principally of old soldiers, saw together the greatest hero and the greatest heroine of the Spanish-American War, reminiscing of common hardships and common dangers, as one man they rose to their feet, tumultuously cheering. An old soldier at the top of his voice shouted: “Three cheers for Clara Barton!” The cheers given were uproarious, cheers continuing again and again. At a still higher pitch of voice another shouted: “Tiger!!” Hardly had the echo of that voice died away when still another voice cried out: “No, Sweetheart!!” Then shouts and tears were intermingled and little Clara, with a love as true to her “soldier boys” as that of her “soldier boys” to her, much embarrassed and speechless, could only smile back her love in return, and in tears smile and smile and smile. XLIII I have been shaking hands since nine o’clock this morning, and my right hand is almost paralyzed. A. LINCOLN, January 2, 1863. My “duties?” Receiving and shaking hands with _two thousand persons_, sitting down to the May breakfast at one o’clock with eleven hundred—leaving the table at four P. M. CLARA BARTON, May 3, 1910. All speaking terrifies me. CLARA BARTON. Formality and parade I hate. CLARA BARTON. Vain pomp and glory of the world I hate ye. KING HENRY VIII. Who was it that said that life is three-fourths conduct? Matthew Arnold, I think. BISHOP WILLIAM F. MCDOWELL. While Clara Barton’s religion was real, it was a thing expressed not in words nor creeds, but almost wholly in deeds. REVEREND PERCY H. EPLER. Such lives as Clara Barton’s teach the world a lesson which it must never be permitted to forget—namely, that the wealth of human life is not what it gets, but what it gives. REV. WM. E. BARTON, D.D.