American National Red Cross; Red Cross and Red Crescent
Observe among your people which one succeeds best in any undertaking,
whether it is in the raising of a particular kind of crop, or the saving
of it, the successful curing of his meat, the raising of fruit, the
breeding of good stock, or having attractive home--go to _that one_ for
that particular kind of information or instruction that you want. Strive
to improve the moral standing, which is necessary for physical as well
as social advancement.
No one who has been with these people, worked with them as we have, but
must be pleased to observe their gratitude, their gentle manner of
expressing it, their desire to improve and their attention to
instruction or suggestion, their cheerful disposition and their faith in
God and the Red Cross.
ON THE CHARLESTON GROUP.
Among those who lived the storm and later brought their experience and
quickened sympathy to us for such help as they could give to their still
suffering companions in danger and woe, was our tireless and faithful
assistant, Mr. H.L. Bailey, of Charleston.
It has never been my good fortune to find one who--entirely new to the
work and to its conception--has grasped more readily the field of labor
presented to him. The success attending his work and the satisfaction
attested by his beneficiaries are rich stores of memory for a lifetime.
The Red Cross could not have asked for better service.
REPORT OF MR. H.L. BAILEY.
In order to make the following narrative more complete I deem it not
amiss to preface it with a short account of my own experience in the
great Cyclone of 1893, and a few incidents relating thereto.
In August, 1893, I was doing business on that part of Edisto Island,
known as "Little Edisto," and spending the nights at a small place "just
across the creek" called "Brick House," said place taking its name from
an old and substantial brick house which had been built on that spot, at
a time ante-dating the Revolutionary War, and much honored in that
locality on account of its antiquity and the good material of which it
was built, the bricks, etc., having been imported from Holland.
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