The Red Cross : in peace and war . es, the frosts arewhitening the rocky crests, trodden by their wandering feet, and longbefore Christmas the friendly snow will have commenced to cover theirgraves. These facts, bare and grim, are what I have to present to theAmerican people; and if it should be proposed to make any use of themthere is not much time for consideration. We have hastened, withoutloss of a day, to bring them plainly and truthfully before the public asa subject pertaining peculiarly to it. I would like to add that this great work of human relief shouldnot fall wholly upon the peopl
The Red Cross : in peace and war . es, the frosts arewhitening the rocky crests, trodden by their wandering feet, and longbefore Christmas the friendly snow will have commenced to cover theirgraves. These facts, bare and grim, are what I have to present to theAmerican people; and if it should be proposed to make any use of themthere is not much time for consideration. We have hastened, withoutloss of a day, to bring them plainly and truthfully before the public asa subject pertaining peculiarly to it. I would like to add that this great work of human relief shouldnot fall wholly upon the people of our own country—by no means with-out its own suffering poor—neither would it. The people of mostenlightened nations should unite in this relief, and I believe, properlyconferred with, would do so. None of us have found any better medium for the dispensation ofcharitable relief than the faithful missionaries already on the ground,and our government oflScers, whose present course bespeaks theiractive interest. Clara A BIT OF 324 THR RED CROSL KHPORT OF THH FINANCIAL SHCRHTARY. The following financial report, of necessity, has to deal with thecurrencies of five different countries, viz.: American, English, French,Austrian and Turkish, but as nearly all except expenses of travel andmaintenance are in Turkish money, and as American, English, Frenchand other moneys received were naturally reduced to the coin of theOttoman Empire, we were obliged to make our accounts to the report is made on the gold basis of loo piasters to a lira, ourfriends may easily find the value in American money by multiplyingthe number of piasters by , as a gold lira (100 piasters) is approxi-mately worth four and four-tenths dollars. Owing to the difference in values between gold and silver coin, thewide range of values between the same coin in different cities, also thesingulat variation of the purchasing power of the same coin in the samecities for various commodi
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