eagerly they worked in their gardens, planting garden "yarbs" (herbs) and then their corn, cotton, etc. Our thanks are due to the J.C. Vaughan Seed Store of New York and Chicago (through Mr. Burt Eddy, their Southern Agent), for a large supply of potatoes and other seeds sent direct to me. A brief summary of food supplies issued in my district shows: Meat 7,440 lbs. Grits 16,410 pecks. Beef 395 lbs. } Milk 192 cans } For the sick. Coffee 143 lbs. } Sugar 120 lbs. } [Illustration: TESTIMONIAL FROM RUSSIAN WORKMEN FOR AMERICAN HELP AND SYMPATHY IN THE FAMINE OF 1892.] [Illustration: Copyright, 1898, by Clara Barton. A RUSSIAN PEASANT VILLAGE _Scene taken during the famine_] There were 454 cases of sickness treated at the camp and 75 visits made to the sick at home. In May, with the vegetables and wild fruits in good supply and marketable, their crops all growing well, I asked the people, "Can you manage to get along now without further help?" They answered "Yes; we are thankful for what has been done for us, and will try to pull through till harvest, alone." On the twentieth of May I issued a month's supply to each family, took down the Red Cross flag and closed the relief work for this district. A year has passed since then. I am now a permanent resident on Hilton Head Island. I watched the crops grow, saw a good harvest gathered in, the people resumed their old-time cheerful tone, and the storm became a memory. With the exception of a very few old people who are hardly able to totter, and have no one to plant or work for them, the people of this island are again prosperous and happy. Occasionally some kind friend enables me still to make some old uncle or auntie happy with a little help, and so they totter down to "where the storms shall cease to roll." CLOTHING BRANCH, HILTON HEAD DISTRICT. REPORT BY MRS. MACDONALD.