It is not the purpose of the present author to relate in detail the story of the work of the Red Cross during the next twenty-three years. Clara Barton herself has done that in a large octavo volume of nearly seven hundred pages. To that book reference must be had for any adequate idea of her service for almost a quarter of a century. Almost every year beheld a calamity of sufficient magnitude to call for the official activity of the American Red Cross. The mere list of the fields of its service is notable: 1881, the Michigan forest fires. 1882, the Mississippi River floods. 1883, the Mississippi River floods. 1883, the tornado in Louisiana and Alabama. 1883, the Balkan War. 1884, the Ohio and Mississippi River floods. 1885, the Texas famine. 1886, the Charleston earthquake. 1888, the tornado at Mt. Vernon, Illinois. 1888, the Florida yellow-fever epidemic. 1889, the Johnstown flood. 1892, the Russian famine. 1893, the tornado at Pomeroy, Iowa. 1893 and 94, the hurricane and tidal wave in the South Carolina islands. 1896, the Armenian massacres in Turkey in Asia Minor. 1898 to 1900, the Cuban Reconcentrado relief. 1898, the Spanish-American War. 1900, the Galveston storm and tidal wave. 1904, the typhoid fever epidemic at Butler, Pennsylvania. In almost every instance Clara Barton went in person to the field. Where she went was order, efficiency, sympathy, and comfort. In the days of the Civil War the official sign of a hospital was the yellow banner, still used in the quarantine service to designate a hospital for the treatment of contagious diseases. It was and is a respectable and worthy emblem, but there was nothing very inspiring about it. Where Clara Barton went on her missions of mercy, two flags floated, the Stars and Stripes and the beautiful white flag with its cross of blazing red. Clara Barton loved the color red. The red rose was the flower of her family. A dash of red she almost invariably had about her clothing somewhere. It was altogether in keeping with her personal tastes that the emblem which came to symbolize her life-work was of the color which never failed to gladden her eye. In 1881 she set out, as she herself related in her first article for the Associated Press, to make the name and emblem of the Red Cross as familiar in America, as for many years it had been in almost every other civilized nation. She succeeded in doing this, not simply by a campaign of publicity, but by the practical agency of applied mercy. When fire or famine or flood devastated a region, and its victims were homeless and despairing, and local agencies for relief were overworked and working aimlessly or at cross-purposes, the unfurling of the flag of the Red Cross was the sign of hope. It meant not only human kindness and sympathy, but confidence and efficiency and success.