The policy of the Red Cross was to help people to true independence by enabling them to support themselves by their own work. In Galveston after the flood had produced widespread ruin, Clara Barton authorized her field agent to visit the coast towns, ascertain the needs of the people, and send in requisitions by telegraph. As the agent was leaving on this mission she said: At the Sea Islands one day a negro came to see me. He said that we had built a little house for him, fenced in his field and garden and given him seed and plow and tools to work with. Now if he had a horse or a mule or a little bull to pull the plow he could put in his crops. I gave instructions that his need should be supplied and, as the horse or mule could not be found, a two-year-old steer was bought for him. Now you are going to the coast country, but wherever you go in all the world if you find anybody who needs a horse or a mule or a little bull, you buy it for him. Oh, chillun, life’s contra’wise, But you’ll neber know no diff’unce ’Twel you’s knockin’ at de skies. LVIII Clara Barton—perhaps the most perfect incarnation of mercy the modern world has known. _Detroit Free Press._ Peace and good will to all the world. CLARA BARTON. Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, pass no criticism. GEORGE ELIOT. Humanity is much more shown in our conduct towards animals than towards our fellow creatures. CHESTERFIELD. Some animals are so faithful that I hate to call them brutes. LORD ERSKINE. There is in every animal’s eye a dim image and gleam of humanity. RUSKIN. Clara Barton’s affection for dumb animals showed itself in almost every letter. REV. PERCY H. EPLER. Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. CORIOLANUS. Asoka, Ruler of India, about 300 years before Christ, organized hospitals for the treatment of animals. LAJPAT RAI. Clara Barton had some reward in the fact that every human living thing that knew her loved her. Roanoke (Va.) _News_. OR GOD WOULDN’T HAVE MADE THEM Just back of the old Red Cross house at Glen Echo, the hills slope somewhat abruptly about 100 feet down to the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. The canal is still in use, with its locks intact, the boats plying day and night up and down between its banks. The canal is historic—one of the oldest in the United States. It is of unusual interest because the first construction work was under the supervision of George Washington, he being the President of the canal company. The canal was operated long before railroads came into use in this country. From the Red Cross house forest trees and thick underbrush cover the slope of the hills down to the canal.