We live in deeds, not years—we should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. PHILIP J. BAILEY. Although she had lived more than ninety years Clara Barton never gave the impression to anyone that she was an old woman. ‘Her age knows no time.’ She gave to the world nearly a century of work. ALICE HUBBARD. A life spent worthily should be measured by a noble line—by deeds, not years. PIZARRO. Age is opportunity no less than youth itself, but in a different dress. H. W. LONGFELLOW. THE PASSING OF YEARS—RIGHT HABITS OF LIFE At the age of 11 years Clara Barton was a nurse; at 15 years, a teacher; at 34 years, a clerk in the Patent Office; at 40 years, a nurse in the Civil War; at 59 years, an organizer of nurses in the Franco-Prussian war; at 60 years, President of the American Red Cross; at 78 years as President of the Red Cross in the Spanish-American war; at 83 years, retired from the Presidency of the Red Cross; at 84 years, organizer and the President of the National First Aid Association, which Presidency she held up to the time of her death in 1912, when she was 91 years of age. Commenting on the passing of years, Clara Barton philosophizes: “Age is no business of ours. We have no control over its beginning and, unless criminally, none over its ending. I have never, since a child, kept a ‘birthday’ nor thought of it only as a reminder by others. “I have been able to see that persistent marking of dates, and adding one mile-stone every year, encourages the feeling of helplessness, and release from activities which might still be a pleasure to the possessor. Somehow it has come to me to consider strength and activity, aided so far as possible by right habits of life, as forming a more correct line of limitation than the mere ‘passing of years.’” LVI Clara Barton, the good angel of comfort, will live enshrined in the hearts of America and of the world. _Western Christian_ (Ohio) _Advocate_. Great evils die hard. CLARA BARTON. Don’t drink. A. LINCOLN. Cold water,—the only beverage I have used, or allowed, in my family. A. LINCOLN. The saloon, the most blighting curse;—liquor traffic, the tragedy of civilization—I am a practical prohibitionist. A. LINCOLN. Intemperance is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all the evils among mankind. A. LINCOLN. The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims there is not one slave nor drunkard on the face of God’s green earth. A. LINCOLN—(In a letter to George E. Pickett.)