The daily gazette., 1880-01-13
For the GAZETTE.
Heroic Women.
BY Amelia Cook Kingswell.


Woman q ability as .sarrior or mill
tary leader, has been questioned by
those who have never entered far enough
into the crosses and triumphs Of the bat.
tie ground to see q lovely woman in the
role OF military oombatant defending,
with masculine courage, her political
convictions. Reverting 10 the death Of
Joshua when the Jews fell into disorder,
there arose mother In Israel, whose
song Of praise for their deliverance from
captivity, reflected exultinR music upon
the broad palms of Deborah, the dying
tones OF which mingled IN sweet unison
with the lamentations of the daughter
OF Israel, weeping over Jeptha's daughs
During this time the Canaanites, led
by Sisera, declared war against the
jews Ten thousand men, headed by
Deborah, attacked Sisera and destroyed
his army. Sisera sought refuge in
Heber's tent, where Jsel, the wife of
Heber, administered q narcotic to him.
While he was hugging Morpheus she
furnishes us with q beautiful tragedy,
and should be a warning to those who
dare oppose the power Of woman to be-
ware OF the Deborahs and Jaels.
III Bruce at Nevips Cross had remem~
bered their valOr he would not have been
so utterly deceived over the supposed to
be undisclplined troops, because they
were ,comman 1ed by Philippa. When
the glory of France began to decline
under the imbecile Charles and Orleans
was threatened by calamities the I'M
domitable, Joan D'Arc undertook to re-
leve the condition of her native country,
aud, as holy maid acting under Heavs
cay insp.rations--a picture of achiev-
ment-seated upon fiery steed, decked
with consecrated banner, her keen
edged sword graced by the ''heur de lis,'
with that sword, that miraculous sword
OF Pricella, she bade defianceto the brave
and daring Talbot, and fulfilled her divil
nation by placing-not upon her own
head-but upon that sflanother ajeweled
crown, while she was left Ito eat the
bread of grief and drink the waters of
anguish" unrewarded, save by storied
urn to commemorate her ashes.
When the horTsrs of intestine strife
devastated England, the representative
of the red rose being rendered incapable
by lethargic complaint, the courageous
daughter.of Sicily-Margaret of Aniou-
supported the aspirations of her husband
with great fortitude. When Fairfax sat
down before the tower of Lathom and
proffered protection to the illastrious
Countess of Derby Ifshe would surren-
and carried her point by maintaining &
her allegiance to her sovereign and her
pledges 10 her loyal husband. He met
his superior, for he lost two thousand at
enc siege, and proud Fairfax and the
contentious Rigby were compelled to
kneel before the "Queen of the Isle of
Man"
When the daughters of Jerusalem were
taken into captivity, there was heriosln
in the intense grief which they manl~
Tested for the earthly Paradise from
which they had been so ruthlessly ex-
PEELED. Their harps, though unstrung
by the wrongs of Babylon, mingled their
sweet and plaintive strains with the cruel
mockeries of their enemies when accom-
Danying the regrets, Borrows and affli u
tious depi cted in the mournful lamenua-
tion. "By the rivers of Babylon we sat
down and wept, when we remembered
Zerri yea We hanged our harps upon the
willows in the midst thereof"