Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian / Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America

by Charles Sumner Young

Drama is the tragedy of women. Napoleon.

I have fought like a lion for the Republic and, by way of recompense, it grants me permission to die of hunger. Napoleon.

Fortune is a woman. The more she does for us the more we expect. Napoleon.

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. Shakespeare.

The wicked flee when no man pursueth. Psalms.

The thief doth fear each bush an officer. Shakespeare.

Little sea-girt Corsica is weird, wild, soft and bewitching, strange, unique, but she had so much that one wearied of.

Clara Barton.

AT THE BIRTHPLACE OF NAPOLEON—THE CORSICAN BANDIT

At Ajaccio, on the Island of Corsica, there is still carefully preserved the house where was born Napoleon, in 1769. The island (a French Colony) is 114 miles long and 52 miles wide, and contains about 300,000 inhabitants; Ajaccio, the capital, about 19,000 inhabitants. Many of the street names, and statues of the city likewise, perpetuate the memory of the great military chieftain, as do other spots of similar historic interest in connection with his boyhood.