THE LAST RECEPTION—HER AUTOGRAPH—THE BOYS IN GRAY The last great public reception to Clara Barton was in Chicago, May 3, 1910. Miss Barton made the trip alone from Washington to Chicago, she then being nearly ninety years of age. The reception was given by the Social Economics Club, in Mandel’s Tea Room, to twelve hundred delegates, representing the club women of the State of Illinois, Clara Barton being the special guest of honor. Just back of Miss Barton on the stage was a snow-white flag bearing in its center a blazing red cross. The question to be discussed was “Are We Elevated by Knocks or Boosts?” Under the spell of Miss Barton’s presence, “Knocks” was omitted from the program and “Boosts” resulted in a symposium of tributes,—in an ovation given to Miss Barton “such as few mortals receive.” Since her death her autograph has become very valuable. Even then it was highly prized, and she was not permitted to leave the hall until every delegate present had her autograph. At the close of the meeting a delegation of Southern women waited on Clara Barton to thank her for what she did for the “boys in Gray” during the Civil War. The following Sunday evening she was asked to fill the pulpit of a famous Chicago divine. She declined. “But you must, Miss Barton; it is announced, and the audience expects you.” Commenting on the occasion she remarked to a friend: “I got even with the pastor, for he had to sit in the pulpit to listen to my talk; but possibly more annoying to him is the fact that he sat there, facing the largest audience he had ever seen in his church—wondering all the while what had been the trouble with his sermons.” XLIV I am sure I express the sentiment of our great commonwealth when I say “All honor to the memory of the great founder of the Red Cross.” CHARLES E. TOWNSEND, U. S. Senate. Clara Barton’s fame will live as long as the race honors self-sacrificing devotion in ministering to the suffering. Dayton (Ohio) _Journal_. Clara Barton—her fame will live throughout the ages. Tampa (Fla.) _Tribune_. Thou art Freedom’s now and Fame’s. FITZ-GREENE HALLECK. Fame outlives marble. W. G. CLARK. Fame is but a phantom. J. BROOKS. Fame is the echo of action. FULTON. Fame is a magnifying glass. PAVILLON. Fame is the thin shadow of eternity. MARTIN LUTHER. Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. SOCRATES. Fame comes only when deserved. H. W. LONGFELLOW. Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. MILTON. The temple of fame stands upon the grave. HAZLITT. With fame—in just proportion, envy grows. YOUNG. He lives in fame that died in virtue’s cause. TITUS ANDRONICUS. What is fame? A fancied life in other’s breath.