The tears were filling Miss Barton’s eyes before she had finished. She was abashed at her failure to control her emotions but, glancing up at the Secretary, she saw that he too was weeping. Looking at each other a moment in silence, the Secretary reached out his hand to Miss Barton and said “I do accept your tribute of thanks—for my father.”
Clara Barton—intelligent and reclaiming, her leading attributes.
Pity it is to slay the meanest thing. HOOD.
Man is an aristocrat among animals. HEINE.
The merciful man doeth good to his own soul. PROVERBS.
How deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to kill animals. TOLSTOI.
Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men.
Could we understand the language of animals, how instructive a dialogue of dogs would be. EUDOXES.
Animals, in our degenerate age, are every day perishing under the hands of barbarity, without notice, without mercy. A. DEAN.
Surely the sensibility of brutes entitles them to a milder treatment than they usually meet with from hard and unthinking wretches. A. DEAN.
“Miss Barton, the butcher has been here today. He wants to buy the little Jersey calf; offered me $5.00 for it,” said the manager of the Red Cross home, “and I told him he could have it.” “But he can’t,—why didn’t you ask me about it?” “Well, I knew we couldn’t keep it; we need the milk—” “But the calf needs the milk too, and I tell you that the calf is not going to be killed.” “But I have sold it.” “That doesn’t make any difference; I haven’t—and it’s my calf.”
“You just ask your neighbors, and they’ll tell you that nobody thinks of raising a calf—in town here.” “But I’m not asking my neighbors.”
“Now, Miss Barton, don’t you know we have no pasturage and we have to buy all our feed, and feed is high now, too.”
“But, Miss Barton, the calf is a nuisance around the house, and it will cost more——”
“Now, you’ve said enough; the calf is _not_ a nuisance and _I_ am paying the expenses. If you don’t want to take care of the calf, I’ll take care of it myself. Now go along and don’t talk to me any more about that calf. The butcher will _not_ get it.”
Clara Barton, an example of charity to a younger generation.
Woman! there is a place for thee; go forth and fill it, that in thee mankind may be doubly blessed. CLARA BARTON.